Example sentences of "[vb infin] of [pron] else " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 2 | Do you know of anyone else who is capable of recognising an opportunity if one presents itself ? ’ |
| 3 | Do you know of anyone else who is interested in the UK ? |
| 4 | ‘ Possibly he may know of someone else who gives such lessons . ’ |
| 5 | Marie could think of nothing else to say . |
| 6 | The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her and she could think of nothing else the whole winter . |
| 7 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 8 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 9 | The desire to do this laid hold of him , and he could think of nothing else . ’ |
| 10 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 11 | His head was so full of her that he could think of nothing else . |
| 12 | He could think of nothing else . |
| 13 | As he could think of nothing else , Martin repeated this to his grandfather . |
| 14 | At this moment I can think of nothing else . ’ |
| 15 | I could think of nothing else . |
| 16 | She could think of nothing else to say . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll try and think of something else , sir , ’ Hoomey said brightly . |
| 18 | She must think of something else to do . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll come home to get well and then we 'll think of something else for you . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll think of something else ter 'elp us through . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I kept thinking , aww , pretty soon I 'm gon na think of something else or something else is going to happen . |
| 22 | And … and if you do n't like it , we 'll think of something else . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure your wrong , ’ said Anna , but she remembered how Maria Jakob had said that if the money was not forthcoming she must think of something else , a way to make up to her for Melusina 's death , and she had not meant a donation to the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 24 | They 're just useful headings , but if you can think of something else What would you say ? |
| 25 | If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh ; as soon as you put on your robe and I could think of something else . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll think of something else . ’ |
| 28 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 29 | ( In all honesty I did n't really think that she would want to flick elastic bands but I could n't think of what else to rhyme with ‘ hands ’ . ) |
| 30 | ’ I could n't think of anything else to say . |