Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 2 | And expected everyone else to do the same . |
| 3 | She had tremendous will-power , and the locals reckoned she would outlive everyone just to spite them , yet she was so senile she was practically imb -senile ! |
| 4 | The atmosphere was one of people enjoying themselves in their own way and allowing everyone else to do so too . |
| 5 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 6 | We got nothing else to do . ’ |
| 7 | I got nothing else to do , and at least we 'll be able to feel we 're trying . ’ |
| 8 | It 's all right , honey , I do n't really talk like that , I do it to irritate Matt , though it usually does n't because he 's so thick-skinned and thinks everyone else talks like that anyway , so I guess I do it for my own private amusement . |
| 9 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 10 | She looked a little peculiar , but she would make everyone else look pitifully ordinary . |
| 11 | We got no-one here called that … |
| 12 | If , for example , you asked someone not to smoke in your presence ( the right to ask others to respond to your needs and wants ) you need to respect their right to have different needs and wants and , much more difficult , their right to say no . |
| 13 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |
| 14 | I got someone else to follow her . |
| 15 | And , of course , he always got someone else to pay for everything anyway , so it was n't any financial problem . |
| 16 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
| 17 | If you are not allowed that kind of release for yourself , it may be intolerable for you to see someone else using it . |
| 18 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 19 | The dilemma is not even as simple as this , because under certain conditions , exactly what I need is to see someone else going through the steps , or to have my behaviour confirmed , or to hear the generality articulated . |
| 20 | It 's a shame you ai n't got no 'ome nor fam'ly , but I do n't like to see someone not eatin' when they 're laid up , you need a bit of food then . |
| 21 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 22 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 23 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 24 | And you want everyone else to get up as well do n't you ? |
| 25 | Everyone wants everyone else to succeed . |
| 26 | At the special Cabinet , and curiously for a Prime Minister who wishes to get his own way when his colleagues are at best perplexed , he invited everyone else to give their own views before himself intervening . |
| 27 | The courts will generally be reluctant to find that a natural event breaks the chain of causation as the plaintiff has no-one else to sue if the defendant is exonerated . |
| 28 | I think the Rainbow people had rung everyone else to warn them . |
| 29 | There is nothing else you need to do , except let everyone else wonder quite what you have done . |
| 30 | 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 . |