Example sentences of "[prep] everybody else [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 2 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 3 | The haunting intensity of Johnny Marr 's echoey guitar cut across a slow paced rhythm to create a sense of evil and Morrissey 's line , ‘ I am human and I need to be loved … just like everybody else does … ’ , only succeeded in adding weight to the darkness . |
| 4 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 5 | Then , when he had finished , he would sit there , fidgeting , until everybody else had . |
| 6 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 7 | And I was able to go and shop without everybody else helping . |
| 8 | Oh , but I forgot , Buddy is a ‘ genuine fan ’ ( ha , ha ) who probably just stands at the back , looking at everybody else wondering whom he can slag . |
| 9 | Oh , but I forgot , Buddy is a ‘ genuine fan ’ ( ha , ha ) who probably just stands at the back , looking at everybody else wondering whom he can slag . |
| 10 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |