Example sentences of "was the next " in BNC.

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1 So was the next one .
2 ‘ Balls ’ was the next word she came across , a few yards further on .
3 ‘ An early night for me , ’ was the next thing from him , while she stayed as always , to complete the Guardian crossword .
4 Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour .
5 But the assembly which shocked him was the next , at Evanston in the United States in 1954 .
6 Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting .
7 Alan Russell was the next partner to join the Balbirnie team .
8 Newspapers speculate that the 1lb of TNT that went off 25 minutes before the general arrived in his office was the next stage of this campaign .
9 John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing .
10 ‘ When will it be born , Lily ? ’ was the next refrain and here she could be truthful .
11 Van Zyl 's quickish medium pace was the next to be targeted by Simmons .
12 Berwick was the next casualty .
13 I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round .
14 Before Trevithick 's invention and Stephenson 's vision and tenacity , the furthest most people travelled from home was the next village or the nearest town on market day .
15 Housing was the next topic — Mr. Jenks called for the unfreezing of money from council house sales , while Mr. Malone spoke of the government 's record of investment in housing associations .
16 What was the next subject ?
17 Corcoran too the view that since England was the next venue — this was 1956 — they should ask the locals which players would be favourites .
18 ‘ If anyone decided to make their political statement by shooting at an English cricketer , after Gower at the toss , I was the next Englishman to be involved on the field .
19 But on both occasions it was the next logical step — he had nowhere else to go .
20 But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing .
21 What and how far was the next county , and could we make it to the border before closing-time ?
22 Faced with the ubiquitous HVS or Extremely Severe descriptions , what was the next step in the quest for information ?
23 It was the next operation that caused the most trouble .
24 ‘ Would n't it be funny if I was the next Lady Mellor ? ’ she giggled to a friend in the heat of her affair with the Cabinet Casanova .
25 All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love .
26 It was the next day that Lewis turned up at the door of the workshop his tools in a bag and his leather apron over his arm .
27 The coaling was the next task to be completed .
28 Ireland was the next area in which Anselm took steps to establish the authority of Canterbury .
29 Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store .
30 As he swung his legs out of bed , Duncan wondered if this was the next move in the Russian 's game .
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