Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] next " in BNC.
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1 | Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’ |
2 | ‘ And I 'm the next best thing ? ’ |
3 | I 'm the next one I 'm gon na do I 'm gon na spread it down below nought so we 're getting into the negative numbers . |
4 | ‘ 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 . |
5 | ‘ 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 . |
6 | I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size . |
7 | now possible to deprive many a patient of a fulfilment of the wish to have a death of one 's own , the scene Dr. Rynearson ( whose work he is discussing ) describes is one of patients with an ‘ untreatable ’ disease being kept alive indefinitely by means of tubes inserted into their stomachs , or into their veins , or into their bladders , or into their rectums — and the whole sad scene thus created encompassed within a cocoon of oxygen which is the next thing to a shroud . |
8 | Which is the main source of fuel and which is the next largest ? |
9 | It would be very dangerous , which is the next point . |
10 | On the other hand , under-exposure causes problems which will be apparent when you come to develop the exposed board , which is the next stage of processing . |
11 | When he is caught it is his trial which is the next stage of the criminal justice system to attract media attention . |
12 | And there was this parish here , Wenhaston , and Westleton which is the next one , there were about a hundred and fifty men went to sea out of these two parishes . |
13 | Day 2 Chairs — The issue is do we record them when the purchase is made or only on delivery which is the next day . |
14 | Reconvene at two and then go straight into matter C which is the next section . |
15 | The syllables ‘ in an ’ form a pre-head , which is the next component of the tone-unit to be introduced . |
16 | And you had two hours , fifty two minutes , right , so which is the next one , this one ? |
17 | Right which is the next easiest one to work out ? |
18 | But we had had to make do with black crepe paper , which was the next best thing . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Finnish had fewer words per sentence on average , but had 48 per cent of words with six or more letters , 19 per cent more than German , which was the next highest . |
21 | Darnley himself was the next to die . |
22 | You are the next of kin . ’ |
23 | Find out if you 're the next Bateman . |
24 | It 's cheaper than eating here , and when you 're the next Nirvana , rather than the current one , every penny counts . |
25 | The international nature of the event was represented by Charlotte Teske ( GER ) and Wanda Turo ( USA ) who were the next home . |
26 | Who 's the next customer . |
27 | Who 's the next customer after you Maggie seeing as you changed order ? |
28 | Now who 's the next man ? |
29 | on the eve of their wedding her wedding veil is rent by an intruder , who Rochester assures her is a servant Grace Poole but who is the next day revealed to be his mad Creole wife Bertha , confined to the upper regions of the hall for years , whose unseen presence has long disturbed Jane . |
30 | No doubt we were the next day . |