Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] else [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you can not think of anything else to write , sit there — something might come . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure , but I just thought , I 'm just paying for someone else to go on that holiday . |
| 4 | Certainly the worst way to come to terms happily with being alone is to struggle constantly against it , always waiting for someone else to come along and take away our loneliness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeb decides to laugh this off , partly distracted by someone else calling out to him . |
| 7 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 8 | ( 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 ’ . ) |
| 9 | I could n't think of anything else to do except get out . |
| 10 | ’ I could n't think of anything else to say . |
| 11 | He could n't think of anything else to say , so he made as if to kiss her a third time . |
| 12 | Mariana did n't look up so the smile Trent gave her was a waste of time and he could n't think of anything else to say , or nothing that would make any difference . |
| 13 | But … but I could n't think of anything else to say . |
| 14 | ‘ People always say that , ’ she said , ‘ when they ca n't think of anything else to say . |
| 15 | He could n't quite believe the way things appeared to be going , and could n't think of anything else to say . |
| 16 | He could n't think of anything else to say . |
| 17 | He could n't think of anything else to say . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's probably just as well , ’ Terry giggled , ‘ because he probably ca n't think of anything else to tell you . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't think of anything else to get her . ’ |
| 20 | well it does n't matter about anybody else does it ? |
| 21 | But to have him sitting beside him , looking his followers over in silence and courteously waiting for someone else to speak first — this was a situation beyond Hazel 's experience . |
| 22 | I 've never heard of anyone else having the problem , but I ca n't be the only one who sweats like a pig ! ’ |
| 23 | Over here , everyone 's too influenced by everyone else to do their own thing . ’ |