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Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the rest " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Preston bundled her into her coat and tried to hide the rest of her clothes inside his jacket .
2	They receive a rapturous reception , which is as it should be : here , after all , are the players who have lost just one league game in the previous fifteen months , the players who are widely expected to terrify the rest of the continent in the European Cup , the team with the best strike force and the meanest defence in the First Division .
3	We will need to patch the rest of them up . ’
4	As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation .
5	In August he tried to win the rest of the Six over to major changes in the treaty which would reduce its supranational content and allow French forces greater freedom of action to please the Gaullists .
6	He did n't really need to hear the rest , although he had to brace himself to listen .
7	She did n't wait to hear the rest .
8	Merrill did n't wait to hear the rest .
9	These people , Miss Schlegel , invented Disneyland and now want to turn the rest of the world into a theme park , too , by bribing ancient and civilised peoples to caper and prance for thuggish tourists .
10	‘ We want to rehear the rest , the tapes from the apartment ? ’ asked Vice-President Odell .
11	Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye .
12	" I gave some of it to Eileen and tried to double the rest at roulette .
13	thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive
14	Yorkshire cricket-lover and historian Tony Woodhouse suffered broken legs when hit by a swerving car recently , and is expected to spend the rest of the summer in hospital .
15	‘ I want to spend the rest of my days with you . ’
16	When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) .
17	I 'm a very private person and when you 're relating your feelings so intensely through the music , you want to spend the rest of the time with people you like to be with . ’
18	‘ I want to spend the rest of the day making love to you , ’ he murmured , biting her ear , ‘ I want to touch every part of your body . ’
19	‘ Any thoughts about how you want to spend the rest of the evening ? ’ he asked casually .
20	‘ I want to spend the rest of my life making you happy . ’
21	My favourite cousin is in remission , a transplant is now possible , my favourite girl has found her natural mother — and I have found the girl I want to spend the rest of my life with . ’
22	Well you can always make no I do n't need to make the rest because erm oh yes graphics !
23	And now Faldo is primed to show the rest of the world 's top golfers that he is the undisputed champion .
24	Climbing the hill for the first time Whiggie Geo dropped back and Bradley decided to try to make the rest of the running .
25	He said : ‘ We want to show the rest of the country just what Merseysiders can do .
26	They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand .
27	‘ Ent you goin' to open the rest ? ’
28	‘ You just do n't want me to carry on my business , do you ? ’ she hit back , angered at his refusal and refusing to see the rest as a compliment .
29	The poem is some 5500 tines long , but the first 2000 are Hoccleve 's personal introduction , purporting to explain how he came to write the rest .
30	He managed to eat most of the cream , anyway , and Emily seemed to absorb the rest .