Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases like that it 's the next of kin they want . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 'm the next best thing ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Find out if you 're the next Bateman . |
| 5 | Coach every child as if they were the next Wimbledon champion |
| 6 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 7 | Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’ |
| 8 | John Nott was not the Foreign Secretary , and therefore not responsible for reading the international scene , but he was the next best thing . |
| 9 | Important changes will also take place in economic affairs , but it is the next Parliament that will matter . |
| 10 | like that , but it 's the next one |
| 11 | When they arrived the hospital team changed tack and referred to them about all matters with regard to the girl 's care because they were the next of kin . |
| 12 | ignore page two because it 's the next stage on , in fact , yo because it 's a summation sheet is n't it ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's cheaper than eating here , and when you 're the next Nirvana , rather than the current one , every penny counts . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember this place when it was the next best thing to an orphanage . |
| 16 | Eastwards , Cliff Lane goes past the old school , the post office and a row of cottages to the cliff top , where it is demonstrated why Mappleton has recently achieved tremendous publicity as it is the next English village in danger of being swept into the North Sea . |
| 17 | As it was the next two years proved very difficult . |