Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] the following [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |
| 2 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 3 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 4 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 5 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
| 7 | I have been asked to send you the following extract from the Minutes of the Computing Sub-Group meeting held 24 March 1993 . |
| 8 | To ring her the following morning seemed , therefore , not just a good , but even a right idea . |
| 9 | I wanted to put it all behind me , but every time I tried the TV footage would come back to haunt me the following week . |
| 10 | ‘ Nobody who spends £500 on a jacket wants to discard it the following year , ’ he believes , insisting that no Armani design dates before it dies of old age . |