Example sentences of "[verb] for the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 2 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 3 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 4 | The social position into which individuals are born here is the one in which , theoretically , they are bound to remain for the rest of their life . |
| 5 | Ayrton Senna was in the lead and that 's where he would stay for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 6 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 7 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | The association has offered the MP free cab rides for the rest of his stay in the resort . |
| 9 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 10 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 11 | Car parks can accommodate 2,500 vehicles while streets account for the rest . |
| 12 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 13 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's something you 'll have to continue for the rest of your life . |
| 15 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 16 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |
| 17 | Yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , rent to friends , sell , give away , or even pass on to your children . |
| 18 | Payment of the annuity was continued by the king 's successor , Richard II , whose favour he was to enjoy for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | We shall be there thanks to the excellent monetary and economic management that we have enjoyed in the 1980s and will continue to enjoy for the rest of the 1990s under a Conservative Government . |
| 20 | According to a report published in the New York Times of Aug. 13 , US administration officials accused the Eritrean authorities of diverting food intended for the rest of Ethiopia . |
| 21 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 22 | The angel struck Jacob on the thigh and Jacob limped for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | Same goes for the rest of me . |
| 24 | ‘ That goes for the rest of the team . |
| 25 | He could bring back those of your possessions you will need for the rest of the voyage . ’ |
| 26 | During World War I he was political agent with the Waziristan Frontier Force , and also held a temporary commission in the RAF as a pilot ( 1918 ) , an experience which evidently instilled an enthusiasm for flying which he retained for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | I am not prepared to accept for the rest of the country the idea that , from now until the year dot , either everyone will have to struggle across London to get to Waterloo , which is how things will start , or worse , under the new madness that has been conjured up , everyone will have to struggle out to Stratford to catch the connections for the continent . |
| 28 | The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives . |
| 29 | Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen . |
| 30 | She was so busy absorbing the knowledge that fitzAlan would be safely occupied for the rest of the day that she only belatedly heard the possessiveness behind his instructions . |