Example sentences of "gone the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next , either blasted beyond recognition or seriously wounded . |
| 2 | Taff , the mortar team , and all the others who were present one day and gone the next , some to hospital in England , and others to a shallow grave here in Normandy . |
| 3 | The whole family liked to be heard , as if they wanted people to know they were alive in a world where young and old alike were here one day and gone the next . |
| 4 | It 's just a man failing to reappear , that 's all — now you see him , now you do n't that 's the only thing that 's real : here one minute and gone the next and never coming back — an exit , unobtrusive and unannounced , a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on , until , finally , it is heavy with death . |
| 5 | ‘ In my occupation the people you meet tend to be here one day and gone the next — or I am , since I work freelance . |
| 6 | If you 've backed a couple of horses , and if you 'll be gone the next day , you stay there like everybody else and listen to the commentaries . |
| 7 | ‘ It makes you realise your life can be here one minute and gone the next , ’ Alison told her mum in a trans-Atlantic telephone call . |
| 8 | I 'd have gone the next Thursday after like . |