Example sentences of "[indef pn] else [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Surveyor Chris Easton , who conducted extensive tests on the houses , said : ‘ I think there is nothing else to do but demolish these homes . |
| 7 | After checking for passports and air travel tickets we had nothing else to do but wait for our taxi . |
| 8 | ‘ I ought to , I 've nothing else to do but watch the water and the shipping . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What you needed was a Gofer : someone who had nothing else to do but look after you and your team . |
| 12 | So , please do n't assume that teachers have nothing else to do but give lectures and await your arrival in their rooms . |
| 13 | must think I 've nowt else to do and watch down street . |
| 14 | There did n't seem anything else to do except take them inside and put them in water . |
| 15 | I could n't think of anything else to do except get out . |
| 16 | There was n't anything else to do but laugh . |