Example sentences of "else [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said : ‘ I 'm so sorry to send a hired car but the first eleven foremen are playing the first eleven chauffeurs and there 's no-one else to drive you ’ . ’ |
| 2 | And though Paine designed a London house for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh , there is nothing else to connect him with Uppark , which he mentions nowhere in his thoroughly documented account of his own works . |
| 3 | They are nobody else 's and no-one else will see them , if you do n't want anybody else to see them . |
| 4 | He did n't want to take his eyes from it — equally he wanted somebody else to see it . |
| 5 | There was no doubt he crashed into the sea as I watched him hit , but I did not get a confirmation of this as there was no one else to see it and R.D.F. did n't seem to have much coverage up that way . ’ |
| 6 | He brought it out rather shyly , as though he did n't want anyone else to see it . |
| 7 | If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house . |
| 8 | She did n't seem at all bothered that Gloria and Dot would have to go trudging off to another hospital somewhere else to find him . |
| 9 | Fabia drove down to Dover unhappily , not liking herself very much that , instead of being co-operative when Cara had so much else to worry her , she had been a shade obstructive . |
| 10 | He said that he could not leave his post but that if I was prepared to wait he would ask somebody else to escort me . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd have got someone else to write it for him . |
| 13 | ‘ No , but after what you told me I have a suspicion you kissed me that night at Ib 's Club deliberately in an effort to convince her you 'd found someone else to replace her in your heart and in your bed . ’ |
| 14 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 15 | She promised to find something else to sell me , and said that she would give me a ring . |
| 16 | Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired . |
| 17 | Call someone else to answer Thee , |
| 18 | William Morris threw a fifteenth century quarto , so valuable that he would permit no one else to handle it , at the head of someone who annoyed him . |
| 19 | When you are giving a dog a bath for the first time , it may be helpful to have someone else to help you . |
| 20 | If he did want to mount an exhibition of his work — and she was starting to believe that that too had been a lie , just part of some overall strategy — then he 'd have to find someone else to organise it . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's more than possible , it 's probable , but until we know where else to look we 'll look here . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ooh , I thought I 'd got someone else to give me some money ! |
| 24 | ‘ I have n-nothing else to give you , Benedict , ’ she faltered . |
| 25 | You 'd either a cart or a horse and cart , or a tractor and trailer , and you 'd nice peat , and all these heaps of muck and you knew that when there was n't anything else to do you 'd got to get out there and spread it . |
| 26 | ‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ All it means is you ca n't sort yourself out and you are asking somebody else to do it for you . ’ |
| 28 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ The benefit now is that a child can institute proceedings without having to wait for somebody else to do it , ' said Mr Kidd . |
| 30 | She would n't allow anyone else to do it and , of course , with her broken arm after the fall , she could n't . |