11.  I guess they figured calling their game Arnie was the next best thing to having a blockbusting movie title.

12.  I had hardly dated, and the next thing I knew I was getting Married.

13.  I made do with peripheral vision, which, after all, is the next best thing.

14.  I must have fallen asleep, for the next thing I knew I was woken by the ringing of the telephone.

15.  I started to run and the next thing I knew I was lying on the kitchen table.

16.  It is the next best thing to crossing the deserts of the world oneself.

17.  It turned out to be the next worst thing.

18.  Next thing they do is call their agent, set up a book deal and a miniseries.

19.  The new switch is the next best thing we could do to moving.

20.  The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place.