Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preston bundled her into her coat and tried to hide the rest of her clothes inside his jacket . |
| 2 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " I gave some of it to Eileen and tried to double the rest at roulette . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He managed to eat most of the cream , anyway , and Emily seemed to absorb the rest . |
| 8 | I prepared to collect the rest of my medicines and make for the hospital , when the policeman said to me , ‘ Excuse me , sir . |
| 9 | In the time of the Tudors and Stuarts ( the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ) , London came to dominate the rest of the country , controlling and prospering at the expense of other towns and of villages . |
| 10 | Once he had begun he did n't feel nervous , he spoke slowly and levelly , and once his part was over he began to enjoy the rest of the proceedings . |
| 11 | With slow grudging movements Jess began to remove the rest of her clothes . |
| 12 | But having had his look at the outside Phar Lap returned to join the rest of the pack , and though he remained at the rear he was going very easily . |
| 13 | In 1988 , the American Patrons of the Vatican Museums decided to buy the rest of the valuable collection . |
| 14 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 15 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 16 | When it started raining , however , he decided to spend the rest of the night in the shelter of the church , and finish his planting in the morning . |
| 17 | We left the hide and went to explore the rest of the Power Station grounds . |
| 18 | The first two men to exit from the following party were killed when their parachutes failed to open , but luckily the RAF dispatcher managed to stop the rest from jumping . |
| 19 | One more man left on 4 November , but Barker managed to bring the rest back home , arriving on I February 1840 . |
| 20 | Garner 's , which won permission to develop the site in 1985 , built 22 bungalows and planned to develop the rest of the site in the same way . |
| 21 | She refused Mike 's offer of a drink in the bar before going to her room , saying she preferred to meet the rest of the team in the morning . |
| 22 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 23 | I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them . |
| 24 | It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job . |
| 25 | She had to know the rest . |
| 26 | ‘ Victoria , you 're a sensible girl , you go first , ’ was an order she heard often and with pleasure , for whatever ordeal into which she had to lead the rest , from construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid to pushing her pony through a muddy ford , was always rewarded by authority 's approval . |
| 27 | The Kufra agenda had fifteen items : discussion of the first two was leisurely , so generously chaired that the assembly had to discuss the rest hurriedly in the last two evenings . |
| 28 | He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court . |
| 29 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 30 | We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . |