Example sentences of "would be next " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 'd be next summer , no ? ’ |
| 2 | For other prey , a rat for instance , death would be next . |
| 3 | She pretended to agree , suspecting that her time for trying the landlady 's leniency would be next . |
| 4 | I told Tony that he would be next and he was . |
| 5 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 6 | The witnesses immediately before him painted a picture of an elaborate liar , one whose testimony could probably not be trusted under oath , and of a petty thief who bought lingerie , so it appeared , with money meant for the contras ; some committee members considered him such a ‘ wacko ’ , in the patois , that his testimony would be next to useless . |
| 7 | It was hard to guess whether Mr Spock or Gianni de Michelis would be next on the screen . |
| 8 | The letter inside informed me that Mrs J. Gargery had died the previous Monday , and that the burial would be next Monday , at 3 p.m . |
| 9 | Bilal came down and said that Tom would be next , which was , of course , meaningless . |
| 10 | Sourly he wondered who would be next to pop up out of his former life . |
| 11 | If so , who would be next ? |
| 12 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |