Example sentences of "everyone else " in BNC.

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1 In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics .
2 It is a novel which communicates the notion that talented and untalented meet in that country of the mind where everyone copies and steals from everyone else , where everything is reproductive or reminiscent of everything else , where one thing leads to another and this person passes into that .
3 Everyone else was lying around and I just thought : ‘ That 's it , I 've had enough ’ .
4 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
5 ‘ I know exactly what you said , ’ Father almost whispered , ‘ and unfortunately so does everyone else .
6 ‘ Whether it distracted everyone else long enough to slip five drops of something into Mrs Iverson 's coffee , I would n't know , Inspector . ’
7 ‘ The only matter which you have brought to our attention , sir , which seems to have escaped everyone else 's notice was the — er — untimely mention of the footbell . ’
8 ‘ Only the left hand side of the carving knife touched the next piece of meat , while the right hand side had been neatly wiped on the outside piece , so everyone else 's meat was unaffected . ’
9 I wish you and everyone else at the school every success in the future .
10 This suited everyone else , as some people like to come in early , others to leave late , and we all managed to work around each other .
11 While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's .
12 You 're a human being , just like everyone else .
13 ‘ As I say , I 'm quite a private person , but if that 's OK with everyone else I suppose …
14 She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter .
15 Francis who stopped talking only sometimes , and Marina the theatre director who listened and had everyone else listening , a perfect example of it 's not what you say , it 's the way you say it .
16 He is content for everyone else to have their say first , though his everyday associates and friends respect his views too much to let him get away with that too often .
17 He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint .
18 They are dressed like everyone else .
19 But the jamboree could well turn into one of those parties where half the guests fail to turn up , and everyone else tries terribly hard to pretend that they are having a marvellous time .
20 Like everyone else in late 1980s Whitehall , the words ‘ changing the culture ’ are constantly on Sir Angus ' lips .
21 At the end of their set the roadie applauded wildly , and everyone else wandered back to the bar .
22 All she is asking for , she says , is to live the same kind of life as everyone else .
23 Such people are not all motivated simply by money , but by an interest in building and in architecture and , like everyone else , they have to live with their creations .
24 Everyone else seems to be in the same position .
25 And if Asylnuratova does not possess the imperturbable technique of a Guillem , the expressiveness of her dancing is matched by so mobile and luminous a face that everyone else on stage looks slightly blank .
26 Cardiff 's concern , as it will be for everyone else the All Blacks play in their seven matches in Wales , five in Ireland and one in England , is that the tourists match the mood of their public back home .
27 It appears to me that I have collected his and everyone else 's quota of the annoying little bastards , so I return to my trench , wrap myself up , and sleep fitfully until I am awakened to take my turn on guard .
28 It preferred to be allowed to say some prayers for the Queen , the prime minister , and everyone else concerned with the choice , before they reached their conclusion .
29 The first time you use the rehearsal room , spend as long as necessary setting up your equipment until each member of the band can hear themselves and everyone else clearly .
30 If you sound like everyone else , no one will remember you , even for five minutes .
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