I. determiner
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
first/second/next etc in line for
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He must be first in line for the editor’s job.
last/current/coming/next fiscal year
last/next summer
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He visited Brittany last summer.
live next door to
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A rather odd family came to live next door to us.
next door
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Have you seen next door’s new car?
next door
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the boy next door
next Friday (= Friday of next week )
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Her appointment is next Friday.
next in line to the throne (= will become king when the present ruler dies )
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He is next in line to the throne .
next in line
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The woman next in line began to mutter to herself.
next Monday (= Monday of next week )
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Shall we meet next Monday?
next month
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The movie will be released next month.
next of kin
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May I have your name, address and next of kin, please?
next Saturday (= Saturday of next week )
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Ask her yourself next Saturday.
next Sunday (= Sunday of next week )
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We’ll announce the winners next Sunday.
next Thursday (= Thursday of next week )
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I’ll see you next Thursday.
next to
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There was a little girl sitting next to him.
next Tuesday (= Tuesday of next week )
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Shall we meet next Tuesday?
next Wednesday (= Wednesday of next week )
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I can let you know next Wednesday.
next week
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The wedding is next week.
next weekend
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I'm going to Palm Springs next weekend.
next year
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I might go to law school next year.
next/last April
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I’m going to Cuba next April.
next/last August
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I was there last August.
next/last December
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Last December they visited Prague.
next/last February
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Mum died last February.
next/last January
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I haven’t heard from him since last January.
next/last July
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Laura came over to England last July.
next/last June
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I finished school last June.
next/last March
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She started work here last March.
next/last May
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She started work here last May.
next/last November
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He started work here last November.
next/last October
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We moved in last October.
next/last September
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I haven’t heard from him since last September.
pass sth from one generation to the next
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Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
sb’s next move (= the next thing someone does )
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What should happen next? What’s our next move?
second/next to last (= last except for one other )
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the second to last paragraph
starting (from) now/tomorrow/next week etc
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You have two hours to complete the test, starting now.
the last/next century
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The boats were built in the last century.
the last/next few
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The office has been closed for the last few days.
the next chapter
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This theme will be developed in the next chapter.
the next generation
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People want to pass on money to the next generation when they die.
the next morning/the following morning
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His meeting was not until the next morning.
the next room (= the one beside the one you are in )
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Someone was laughing in the next room .
the next step
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He met in Washington with his campaign advisers to plan his next step.
the next/previous page
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I glanced back to the previous page.
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What’s on the next page?
the next/the following day (= the day after something happened in the past )
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The story was in the newspaper the following day.
top/bottom/next etc shelf
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Put it back on the top shelf.
Whatever next?
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‘Did you know she’s dyed her hair orange?’ ‘ Whatever next? ’
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be first/second/next etc in line to the throne
better luck next time
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Ah well, better luck next time, Andy.
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And if you didn't win, better luck next time.
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Back to the West Indies with it, and better luck next time.
come July/next year/the next day etc
in no time (at all)/in next to no time
next door to sth
next of kin
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The college need to know your next of kin in case something happens to you.
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The police will not release the dead man's name until his next of kin have been informed.
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All that will be sorted out by the social workers who are trying to find his next of kin .
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He would want to write a letter to Stephen's next of kin , if such a person existed.
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His identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin .
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If there is no Will, the next of kin should decide.
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In cases like that it's the next of kin they want.
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Instructions for my next of kin and executors upon my death.
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Urgent plans were being made at the London office to fly next of kin to Katmandu tomorrow.
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We only give out names if we know that relatives and next of kin have been informed.
next to impossible/useless etc
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As a waterproof it was next to useless.
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But counting the dead is next to impossible.
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But he quickly learned that at his age it was next to impossible to find a professional job in San Francisco.
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Buying such a processor for less than $ 400 is next to impossible.
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Further, genuine educational change in these settings is next to impossible given the logistical difficulty of just getting the staff together.
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In the early months, this restraint was next to impossible for them to achieve.
next to nothing
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I learned next to nothing at school - the teachers were awful.
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It costs next to nothing to go to an afternoon movie.
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My parents know next to nothing about the men I date.
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Phil earns next to nothing.
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The company's profits climbed from next to nothing to $6 million in just two years.
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A drive down Highway 880, past the Coliseum complex, reveals next to nothing new.
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For he was obliged now to concentrate on what he was doing, even if it was next to nothing.
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I know next to nothing about Belinda, but I must ask him how she died.
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It was nuts-and-bolts work, with a salary next to nothing, but he was prepared to bear the sacrifices.
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Its high rise flats are steeped in monotonous poverty: families survive on next to nothing, heroin is a hard currency.
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We know next to nothing about philosophy thanks to television, but lots about the nocturnal habits of cute animals.
one minute ... the next (minute) ...
one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
the last but one/the next but two etc
the next best thing
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If I can't be home for Christmas, this is the next best thing.
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He can't ask them, so he is doing the next best thing.
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I guess they figured calling their game Arnie was the next best thing to having a blockbusting movie title.
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It is the next best thing to crossing the deserts of the world oneself.
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The new switch is the next best thing we could do to moving.
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The room is the next best thing to being outside.
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Video may seem like the next best thing to being there, but electronically mediated interactions are different from real-life meetings.
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We do, however, have the next best thing: a place to go for more information.
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We went to the bookshelves to find the next best thing.
the next life
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For Tutankhamun was buried with everything he might need in the next life .
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Perhaps only in the next life .
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When friends parted, they exchanged loans of money to be returned in the next life .
the next minute
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But the next minute there were shrieks.
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For the next minute Diana and the old soldier stood laughing delightedly together.
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One minute he could be smiling and joking, the next minute he could be exploding.
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One moment he was against lawsuits, the next minute his team filed one.
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Then the next minute he's swearing.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
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Meanwhile the audience contemplates his grand opus, wondering what comes next .
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Even as I thanked her for her help, I foresaw, with despair, what was going to come next .
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He urged me when I next came to Moscow to see him in the role of Handel at MKhAT.
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When the Open next came to the Old Course, in 1970, and Nicklaus won, they showed respect and admiration.
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When Bowman next came on watch it had vanished completely.
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Trapani, on Sicily's western tip, comes next with 982 members.
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Of course Polly knew what was coming next .
do
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They stood staring at each other, neither of them really knowing what to say or do next .
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I stopped dead in my tracks, unsure of what to do next .
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On the other hand, there was the question of what to do next , regarding Rakhat.
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So what will he do next ?
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But what should Mike Reid do next ?
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What are you going to do next ?
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These shortcomings are most frustrating when it comes to the vital question of what to do next .
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Joo-Han did not know quite what to do next , whether to plead with him or just leave.
happen
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What made her story so remarkable is what happened next .
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What happened next is colored by the tendency already mentioned for revivalists to paint the immediate past in darkest hues.
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What happened next shows his underworld influence.
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Propriety prevents a description of what happened next .
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This does not mean that you go back to being passive and just being resigned to whatever happens next .
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I sometimes nudge Miles and Evan to join me in wondering what 47 will happen next in a story.
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What happened next remains a blur.
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I wanted to see what would happen next .
lie
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This struck me this afternoon, lying next to her, I looked her full in the face and stroked her hair.
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He lay next to me stiff as wood.
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The pencil lying next to the books acts as the fulcrum, or rotation point.
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He needs me to lie next to him.
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I would wake up first and lie next to her listening to her breathing.
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I feel sick thinking of my baby lying next to, gaining comfort from, the artificial dead.
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Analogous colors are those that lie next to one another on the wheel.
live
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Inside was rather lengthy letter from a nudist who lives next to Bonaventure cemetery.
meet
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Its policy makers next meet Feb. 1.
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Its policy makers next meet on Jan. 30 and 31.
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Central bank policy-makers next meet to consider cutting interest rates on Jan. 30 and 31.
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Fed officials next meet to consider interest rates at the end of January.
move
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And then moved next to the girl.
season
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This was mid-June, and in the nearby fields, next season s crops were maturing.
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No one thinks Jody will have a good season next year.
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There has been speculation the Clippers might leave their current home, the Sports Arena, for Anaheim next season .
seat
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Cliff, smaller and curly-haired, seated next to Ken, gave a snort of laughter.
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Doll Cooper was seated next to him, at one end of a long couch.
sit
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George came and sat next to him.
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I smiled at them and one came over and sat next to me and asked me who my favourite Spice Girl was.
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She sat next to him at dinner that night and engaged him in a lively discussion of rope walking.
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I sat next to a personable young man named Yong Yoon, who was not a typical bureaucrat.
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Steve had always been particularly friendly to me, and I had often sat next to him.
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Ahtonia sat next to her, holding her hand.
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My mother admired Pastor Braun and often sat next to him.
sitting
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I have spent years using buses, and seem to have a knack of sitting next to some very odd people.
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The doctor explained that to You, Jack, I was sitting next to you when he said it.
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I was sitting next to Terri-a black wolf prowling the night.
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Sitting next to me Roberts gave off the physical communion one usually receives from a woman.
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The lady sitting next to my mother began trying to inch her off the seat.
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Anticipate that some one three times the size of an economy-size seat will be sitting next to you.
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With the volunteers sitting next to him, this student began writing.
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Boris, sitting next to me, was getting more and more agitated.
stand
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It drove him mad to think of a stranger standing next to our beds at night, and him asleep.
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Her brightening of mood seems largely inspired by the light bulb she has been standing next to.
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As I stood next to the coxless fours crew, I felt dwarfed.
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For a while she stood next to the coal stove and warmed her hands on the backs of her legs.
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The most widely distributed Shas tract shows a smirking Weizman standing next to a grim-looking Deri behind bars.
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Jody yelled at Kim, even though they were standing next to each other.
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Richard Lombu, standing next to a freshly dug mass grave, also remembers the scene.
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Dad stood next to her and smiled with pride.
time
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The folks who ran the place were nice enough, offering me a free meal next time .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Can you remember what happened next ?
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Everyone started fighting and someone threw a bottle. I forget what happened next .
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First you need to select the text you want to move. Next , click on the "Move" command at the top of the screen.
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First, chop up two large onions. Next , fry them until they are golden brown.
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Heat the chocolate until it melts. Next , pour it into the molds and leave to cool.
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What do I do next ?
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Which of the candidates shall we interview next ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A building next to the lab was being demolished.
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A few seconds later, Erma Bombeck gave up her first class seat and slid into the coach seat next to me.
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Danang was pushed next to the sea and all the land around it had been stripped of trees.
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Her brightening of mood seems largely inspired by the light bulb she has been standing next to.
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I smiled at them and one came over and sat next to me and asked me who my favourite Spice Girl was.
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Note: click the arrow, next to the corresponding level of course, for more information.
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Retribution spawns revenge and the president is up next .
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Such children are likely to be more comfortable right next to their teacher than joining in the unstructured games of childhood.
III. pronoun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jamie was next in line.