Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] else [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 2 | Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task . |
| 3 | Almost as good as being cared for , naturally and freely , was to care for someone else and imagine yourself the recipient . |
| 4 | ‘ Wife mistook husband for someone else when entering her room . |
| 5 | So there was always room to run down there and do some work for somebody else and earn a few shillings , that road . |
| 6 | mistook him for somebody else and thumped him and knocked |
| 7 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 8 | On top of everything else that had happened today , this was just too much . |
| 9 | She was close to cracking up now , these final revelations had been just too much for her , she could n't cope with them , not on top of everything else that had happened today . |
| 10 | She did n't think she could have gone on handling this by herself , not on top of everything else that had happened . |
| 11 | Why not tear them up like everyone else and contribute to the litter found on every bookie 's floor ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mistake it for something else or push it beyond its limits and its purpose may be destroyed . |
| 14 | Duncan phoned me on Friday about something else and said oh have we had this tape , so I said yes , and he said have you seen it and I said no not yet , and he said , erm but he thought it was quite good erm |
| 15 | Everyone goes to bed with everyone else and has orgasms over what great writers they are . |
| 16 | They usually did it for more obvious , sordid reasons ; they wanted money , they had fallen in love with someone else or lost their temper . |
| 17 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 18 | The truth was , of course , that he was in love with someone else and chose to use poor Isabel as a scapegoat . ’ |
| 19 | Sail with someone else and carry some means of attracting attention in the event of an accident , such as flares or a daglo flag . |
| 20 | Unlike DOS , Windows lets you get on with something else while sending or receiving a fax . |
| 21 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |
| 22 | She did not even need to cook since she lived on bread and melon and tomatoes , lacking the energy and appetite to bother with anything else and having only herself to consider . |
| 23 | What if the dealer had a cash-in-hand offer from someone else and went back on his word ? |
| 24 | ‘ He gets the money from someone else and passes it on to Osman ? ’ |
| 25 | It may be that there is a clue to this in something else that happened at Limoges . |
| 26 | ‘ It has given her a head start over everyone else and trained her in the art of being able to look after herself . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if you have had a number of unsuccessful taxations it may be that your draftsman is being too optimistic , especially if payment is on the basis of a percentage of the costs as drawn — If you want to test out your costs draftsman , having received a bill back , send the file off to someone else and see how they draw it . |
| 28 | The second call was to someone else and necessitated me going out later that night to pick up two ounces of best Lebanese Red and three of mixed grass and seed , on a sale-or-return basis . |
| 29 | well to be quite honest I mean th that sounds like good er justification as far as I 'm concerned for moving a moving her work to somebody else or moving her on to somebody else |
| 30 | " I did n't have to take my ideas to somebody else and hear them say " Yes … but " . |