Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 'd be quite exciting to get somebody else 's mail for once . ’
2 Personally I should have been quite glad to get someone else 's boots .
3 It would be typical of her young sister not to be able to see anyone else 's point of view .
4 I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own .
5 And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea .
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