Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 2 | The program proceeds by incrementing POINTER , picking up the next delay value from the acceleration table and waiting until the step interval is complete , before generating the next excitation change . |
| 3 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 4 | The cast , all in full costume , are standing near their initial cue points , eyes riveted on one man , the sweep of whose arm will tell them to start acting out the next episode of Doctor Who . |
| 5 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 6 | That way she 'd be more in command of the situation instead of turning up the next morning knowing all eyes were going to be fixed on her . |
| 7 | You do n't , you got ta , you got ta past there and say go past there and say you 're going up the next time |
| 8 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 9 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 10 | I spent most of the day staring at the walls and ceiling and wondering when the next meal would come . |
| 11 | As much as the militants ' venom , I recall the desperation of pickets who said they ‘ just want to get it over with ’ and strikers ' wives wondering where the next meal was coming from . |
| 12 | a facility for drawing up the next plan in the light of the |
| 13 | They are , according to recent research , bringing up the next generation of offenders , truants , divorcees and generally inadequate people . |
| 14 | The Lima to Huancayo train in Peru reversing up the next section of the highest railway in the world . |
| 15 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you 're a landlord , I suppose , ’ I said , holding back the next thing I had been going to say and then deciding he might not mind . |
| 17 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 18 | Carson started to climb the stairs , passing some stacks of yellow newsprint and a bicycle which was chained to the rotting wood of the balustrade , before turning and starting up the next flight . |
| 19 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 20 | For example , the physical length of words lying to the right of the reader 's current fixation , plays an important role in determining where the next fixation will fall . |
| 21 | I never had a chance to see if anyone had been hurt or not because we were already accelerating up the next stretch of road . |
| 22 | She was quite sure she had surprised them in the act of carrying out the next stage of the deception concerning the Jourdain-Durance paintings . |
| 23 | Our annual institutional presentations held in London , Edinburgh and Paris mapping out the next phase of company development were also well received . |
| 24 | and you 're not commissioned communicating professionally or particularly politely if you do n't ring up that day or the next day anybody understands if you have a puncture a road accident a client crashes but there 's nothing to actually stop you ringing up the next day and saying so sorry you could n't make it |
| 25 | Fred was jumpy while they were working together the next morning , so Arthur opened a bottle of Bollinger in their businesslike new office and then took him out to lunch . |
| 26 | At this rate , she thought , she was in danger of being found snoozing gently the next morning at the scene of the crime . |
| 27 | There was no hesitation in working out the next number in the sequence — 13 . |