Example sentences of "[indef pn] else [verb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way you can stop getting paranoid about it is to get someone else to watch and tell you if you are doing anything wrong . |
| 2 | She used to get someone else to go and do her shopping for her . |
| 3 | The second is to test understanding by inviting someone else to summarize and check that their summary accords with the one you yourself would have given at that stage in the proceedings . |
| 4 | ‘ What I do n't understand is why you appear to blame me for something someone else thought and said . ’ |
| 5 | at three thirty , if nobody else rings that wants to play three thirty then there 'll be nobody there |
| 6 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 7 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 8 | And then somebody else came and said she was er I think |
| 9 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 10 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 11 | No one else spoke or moved . |
| 12 | bloody ages doing things like if , if mode so and so to work out whether it 's a Monday or a Tuesday or something and then trying and everything else to try and get |
| 13 | In case anybody else hears and says anything . |
| 14 | He stated , correctly in my view , that he had quote seen her much more than anybody else unquote and confessed that when he had first treated her on the day of the accident he had quote never expected to see her again , unquote . |
| 15 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |
| 16 | No matter what anyone else thought or said , I was beautiful : I was myself . |
| 17 | Now the thing with the bar-tailed lark is that it just lives in the desert where nothing else does and to complicate matters it lives in the forbidden zone . |
| 18 | Surveyor Chris Easton , who conducted extensive tests on the houses , said : ‘ I think there is nothing else to do but demolish these homes . |
| 19 | After checking for passports and air travel tickets we had nothing else to do but wait for our taxi . |
| 20 | ‘ I ought to , I 've nothing else to do but watch the water and the shipping . |
| 21 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 22 | Sanger duty is particularly boring because there is nothing else to do but look out of the window , and since it is rarely done in pairs social interaction provides no compensation . |
| 23 | What you needed was a Gofer : someone who had nothing else to do but look after you and your team . |
| 24 | So , please do n't assume that teachers have nothing else to do but give lectures and await your arrival in their rooms . |
| 25 | must think I 've nowt else to do and watch down street . |
| 26 | There did n't seem anything else to do except take them inside and put them in water . |
| 27 | I could n't think of anything else to do except get out . |
| 28 | There was n't anything else to do but laugh . |
| 29 | Was anything else said or acted upon or shall I use the kids who are done today ooh , tha that should be done . |