Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’ |
| 2 | The card told me the rest . |
| 3 | That 's when I told her the rest . |
| 4 | When she raised them the rest of the way she held them not to her streaming eyes , but to her ears , listening intently for the sound of the sea . |
| 5 | I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year . |
| 6 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 7 | It took me the rest of the day to clean up . |
| 8 | It took us the rest of the day to struggle back to our last bivouac , I remembered how Stephen Venables had dropped his rucksack , our stove and tent poles at 23,000 feet on Rimo 1 , and knew how the poor fellow felt : devastated . |
| 9 | He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘ |
| 10 | I gave him the rest of it . |