Example sentences of "[pron] else [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The censor at the moment happens to be the Medical Officer attached to Brigade H.Q How can one possibly write a love letter to someone when someone else reads it first , and draws at random a blue pencil through your choicest lines ? |
| 2 | If you are not allowed that kind of release for yourself , it may be intolerable for you to see someone else using it . |
| 3 | Someone else told me of a friend who brought her ninety-year-old mother to visit her . |
| 4 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 5 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 6 | The chief mark of that period was a new confidence in the power of reason , as opposed to acceptance of authority , to discover truth : we find things out , not simply by believing what someone else tells us , but by considering the evidence , reflecting upon it , and accepting what can ‘ prove itself at the bar of reason ’ . |
| 7 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone else set it up and he 's just being used ? ’ |
| 9 | But I really could n't see the sense in women wearing Armani by day and then letting someone else dress them by night . ’ |
| 10 | Call someone else to answer Thee , |
| 11 | Or had someone else done it for her ? |
| 12 | The use of a ‘ killer phrase ’ such as ‘ Well , if that 's such a great idea , why has n't someone else done it ? ’ is like telling a parent that their child has no talent . |
| 13 | Ooh , I thought I 'd got someone else to give me some money ! |
| 14 | Yeah well I I had erm access to quite a lot of you know , quite good clothing , er both children 's and adult 's and erm while I did n't feel that it was that people should have to depend on someone else to give them clothing , erm in some ways it went against the grain to do it . |
| 15 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |
| 16 | The , in analysis you do n't get er someone else to do it for you or you do n't get the therapist to play the role of your ego which is really what happens in this suggestion . |
| 17 | A ‘ lady ’ was definable as someone who did no work , hence who ordered someone else to do it , her superiority being established by this relationship . |
| 18 | What you witnessed that night was Melanie trying to persuade me to perform the operation for her — or , failing that , to get someone else to do it as a favour . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We are quite capable of running our own piggy bank , without asking someone else to do it for us . ’ |
| 20 | Accordingly either the murderer did this himself or paid someone else to do it . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I reckon so , so I I 've arranged for someone else to do it now . |
| 22 | Well I think we 'll have to get some other quotes , because Peter is n't the the roofer , he gets someone else to do it , so I think we ought to have some other quotes . |
| 23 | I 'll eat anything provided someone else gets it ready . |
| 24 | Before someone else gets it . |
| 25 | Just for a second longer she hovered uncertainly in the doorway , fighting against the urge to beg him to find someone else to teach him before she spun round and ran from the room . |
| 26 | ‘ You own things only while you 're alive : someone else had them before you and they will pass to somebody else afterwards . ’ |
| 27 | Someone wanted them , someone else had them . ’ |
| 28 | Someone else said it had already seized up . |
| 29 | Each task must be judged in terms of the basic question : Do I need to do this or could someone else do it for me ? |
| 30 | Someone else quoted him £30 to replace a broken fan . |