Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched in agony as Ram , with the deliberate movements of long service and old age , tore the cartridge , emptied the powder into the muzzle , and took his ramrod to drive down the rest of the cartridge . |
| 2 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 3 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 4 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 5 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 6 | a wary man tees up the rest , sneaking |
| 7 | Then , careless of the damage he did himself , he hoisted his bulk on to the sill , beat out the rest of the pieces of glass with his hand , and dropped down into the room on the other side . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's your name ? ’ he asked , casually tossing back the rest of the ale . |
| 9 | Or in North Africa , having left the 11th Field Regiment , he might have sat out the rest of the war in luxury , gaining rank through time and , come the Peace , have been a live major instead of a dead lieutenant . |
| 10 | She would have to work out the rest of her shift , but she would take the next day off and go to see the doctor . |
| 11 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , have you not ? ’ snapped the other , coming hastily forward to confront her as Theda came down the rest of the stairs . |
| 13 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 14 | Cos all the other schools they filled in the rest part of the week . |
| 15 | In 1979 there were 3,080 barristers practising in central London and 1,283 spread over the rest of england and Wales ; considering that most courts are now decentralised , this certainly seems to indicate an imbalance . |
| 16 | The Scottish Union , despite their early misgivings , eventually agreed to chip in , with Midland Bank , the sponsor of the Scottish students , picking up the rest of the tab . |
| 17 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 18 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 19 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 20 | A TEXAN dude that 's big in France and Germany , apparently , but this record ai n't gon na light up the rest of the west with its plodding , straight-forward observations and predictably worn voicebox . |
| 21 | A good lesson or a little breakthrough with an awkward pupil can light up the rest of the day , while an unresolved clash with a colleague during morning break can equally knock the stuffing out of you . |
| 22 | Then she had to go back to the shop to get our fish and chips , so we bundled up the rest of the wood and , as it was dark , ventured out to see if Dad could find some customers for his new business . |
| 23 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 24 | He now faces seven months in prison serving out the rest of an old jail term , Durham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 25 | But over the succeeding weeks only a handful came out the rest chose to stay . |
| 26 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 27 | He suggested we look over the rest of the house . |
| 28 | The plaintiff 's friend then poured out the rest of the contents and a decomposed snail flowed out of the bottle . |
| 29 | You can probably work out the rest if you did not know it already . |
| 30 | And her mind tried to blank out the rest of it . |