Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 4 | It was the next afternoon that I first saw her , she was in an incubator . |
| 5 | And then it 's the , it was the next pub down , I 've been to The Bull with Jan before when we were on er you know , come home from Wigan or something when we were doing the counters . |
| 6 | It was the next operation that caused the most trouble . |
| 7 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 8 | It was the next morning , the morning of Christmas Day , that Carol made her announcement . |
| 9 | Er I can remember the the news going around that er the police had been to visit , it was actually it was the next street to where I lived . |