Example sentences of "else is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the likelihood is that everyone else is consuming the same product ; with the inexorable rise in the number of books in print , there are now approaching 600,000 different titles to choose from , allowing each of us to tailor our reading precisely to our own individual needs and preferences . |
| 2 | Include something in it which no one else is expecting . |
| 3 | there is an abiding dream in American literature that an unpatterned , unconditioned life is possible … there is also an abiding American dread that someone else is patterning your life , that there are all sorts of invisible plots afoot to rob you of your autonomy of thought and action . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone else is taking a hand in this game . ’ |
| 5 | You may feel pressured to buy what ‘ everybody else is getting this year , Mum , ’ but there are alternatives to please you both — and that wo n't be broken by Boxing Day . |
| 6 | The way it looks now as if somebody else is getting the material that was the lumps maybe that 's going to er what 's his name Technology and we 're getting the crap , we 're getting dust . |
| 7 | you know more likely to worry about work , more likely to feel that they 're , they 're not quite coping , more likely to feel erm you know that , that somehow everybody else is getting on with it and , and , and , and they ca n't , I mean that 's just , you know , going from what people have told me so |
| 8 | tests every one else is getting fifty per cent |
| 9 | On Monday morning everybody starts posting data into the database through the application interface and Fred 's posting in data at fifteen percent V A T , everybody else is posting in the data at seventeen and a half percent V A T. So we 're looking at a two and a half percent margin . |
| 10 | I imagine the BBC had asked themselves : ‘ Why should we stick our necks out when everybody else is bottling it ? ’ |
| 11 | But , spilling 'em in Gillingham Her lobes felt light in Willingham , And nothing else is filling 'em , So now The poem 's Done ! |
| 12 | That money in the consumer 's pocket : who else is competing for it ? |
| 13 | If someone wants to go from A to B , who else is competing to take that person there ? |
| 14 | When the swell rises to twenty feet plus and the high surf warning siren sounds and everyone else is evacuating the water , these are the men who paddle out . |
| 15 | If someone else is annoying us either deliberately or unconsciously , then we have to talk to them to explain the effect they are having on us . |
| 16 | If someone else is living in your home , for example someone who has been caring for you , this may also mean the value is not taken into account . |
| 17 | ‘ Either John and Angela have escaped , ’ Chris said , ‘ or someone else is using their car and pretending to be them . ’ |
| 18 | it 's different to what everybody else is using |
| 19 | Rather they are ‘ boundary crossers ’ or ‘ generalists ’ who move across fields or among sectors who bypass what everybody else is looking at to find possibilities for change . |
| 20 | That 's the thing a man has , only a man 's is bigger : he kisses you , you 've seen people kissing , of course you have , but when they kiss when nobody else is looking , the man puts it inside you . ’ |
| 21 | Sometimes there are the most startling surprises when we come to realise how someone else is looking at a situation which , to us , could only be perceived in one way . |
| 22 | You can just imagine this little boy in the playground , when everyone else is kicking a soccer ball , dressed with big padded shoulders and a helmet and an American football — it was quite bizarre really . |
| 23 | He sits whispering to his neighbours while someone else is speaking in the debate . |
| 24 | You start a new line when someone else is speaking . |
| 25 | Nobody else is speaking for them . |
| 26 | The imagining of what someone else is writing is the mechanism by which the novel switches from one first-person narrator to another . |
| 27 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 28 | There are other factors that recommend elimination , not least being the fact that everyone else is moving in the same direction ; so if British car makers want to sell their vehicles abroad , as surely they must , they must make car engines that run without lead . |
| 29 | A lot of people are doing that now because you can work with those two notes across any number of chords , sort of not moving while everything else is moving . ’ |
| 30 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |