Example sentences of "be [v-ing] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well look , if if you 're wanting the next thing to do , I mean you 've done that for seventh year |
| 2 | but they did n't when they 're having the next one |
| 3 | Nevertheless it is not financially troubled Japan , but Asia 's tigers who are leading the next wave of investment in the region . |
| 4 | If the interviewer remains silent then look at her or him as if you are expecting the next move to come from their side . |
| 5 | ‘ Hopefully , I 'll be doing the next Lemonheads album , ’ he says , with exactly the right amount of carelessness , ‘ but I really have to go and do my own thing as well . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 7 | will be spending the next few months at her home in Italy while she recovers from an attack of shingles . |
| 8 | I 'm saying the next appointment to be made is all by , a complaint examiner , what I should n't have thought we wanted to do at the moment more than one . |
| 9 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 10 | In July 1793 — over a year after the Hunter committee had made its recommendations — Mr Butt gave notice that he would be asking the next general meeting to consider the propriety of appointing another professor to help Vial , whose duties were beyond the competence of any one individual . |
| 11 | It is a matter of great regret that you will not be overseeing the next stage in the development of the department , but you have laid a sound foundation for the future . |
| 12 | Erm yeah , tomorrow 's basically horrendously busy and I 'm temping the next two days , but I 'm free in the evenings . |
| 13 | Good idea , any items of agenda for Sergeant , who will be organising the next meeting in S thirty one |
| 14 | Paid by the job , when he finally knocks off , he has no idea if he will be working the next morning . |
| 15 | It was one of Chapman 's rules that even when the ball was on the other side of the field , a player must always be anticipating the next move . |
| 16 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 17 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 18 | Epic were the memories of the subsequent hearty celebrations , with the Hampshire players soaked in ‘ Lordship 's ’ champagne ; with the train back to Southampton ‘ virtually rocked ’ by the near hysterical merrymaking ; with , in a final Wooster-like-oddity , Tennyson having first led his team to the train for Northampton , where , indeed , Warwickshire were playing the next day . |
| 19 | He added : ‘ We were planning the next evacuation when the shelling began … we were flat on the ground on the landing zone when the last shell impacted about 20 yards from us , injuring two Canadian UN soldiers . ’ |
| 20 | According to Burrows , Software AG is building the next generation of distributed programs with graphical front-ends . |
| 21 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 22 | If each word is displayed as soon as it is recognised , the display will be changing disconcertingly whilst the user is writing the next word . |
| 23 | He ca n't ask them , so he is doing the next best thing . |
| 24 | you know whoever 's running the next |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Tamara Malcom is contemplating the next step for the Theatre — in what will be her new office . |
| 26 | A quick and efficient recovery immediately after the race will mean that by the time you 're on your way home , you are planning the next marathon . |
| 27 | For what Mrs Maugham thought one week to be wholly disgraceful , she was praising the next , and with no apparent consciousness of discrepancy . |
| 28 | She was seeking the next angle , the next approach , knowing that she 'd have at the most a couple of minutes to make her pitch . |
| 29 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 30 | Colt would have liked his father to know how he was spending the next few days . |