Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And now Faldo is primed to show the rest of the world 's top golfers that he is the undisputed champion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 6 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 7 | Naturally , more staff were required , and many of those appointed by Daniels were destined to spend the rest of their teaching careers at the School : W. Potts taught Art from 1915 to 1948 ; L. S. Goddard , Mathematics , 1916–62 ; L. Griffith , General Subjects , 1916–37 ; E. H. W. Conway , Classics , 1918–48 ; H. D. Smith , Mathematics , 1919–63 ; B. Varley , Geography , 1919–50 ; W. A. Paine , French , 1920–52 ; T. J. Anderson , Physical Education , 10,1–42 ; A. Johnston , History , 1925–68 ; A. T. Boak , Physics , 1927–54 . |
| 8 | There is no treatment available for the condition in China and Sheng seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair . |
| 9 | The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs . |
| 10 | The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs . |
| 11 | the same position , it 's the , the teachers have tended to say , well you 're not ready to do it yet or , we 've just got to finish the rest of this book . |
| 12 | He made my guitar riffs up for me and used to present the rest of us with tapes , ’ says Solowka . |
| 13 | They did not care about the burst tyre — all 14 inches and $400 of it — and could hardly be bothered to check the rest of the car . |
| 14 | If they had not , they were told to ignore the rest of this first section and go on to complete Section Two only . |
| 15 | Jane knew from bitter experience that love is a rare thing , so she felt very strongly that nothing should be allowed to come in its way , that nobody should be condemned to endure the rest of life with those two small , sad words : ‘ if only … . ’ |
| 16 | Forget junk food : soon we 'll be forced to clear the rest of the rainforest , just to provide grazing for the cattle needed to clothe the queue outside London 's posey Friday-nighter Glam . |
| 17 | " This will clip the aristocracy , " she wrote to her mother , " but a good deal must be sacrificed to save the rest . " … |
| 18 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 19 | She has become a parody of herself , doomed to spend the rest of her life acting out her own mythical qualities . |
| 20 | Leopold was doomed to spend the rest of his life in Salzburg , and Wolfgang was not to leave it again for over two more weary years . |
| 21 | Was he doomed to spend the rest of his working life watching babes in arms wheeling and dealing the way he used to ? |
| 22 | The Milton Keynes road system is so incomprehensible that you would be forced to spend the rest of your life driving round and round the ring road with a car full of nicked gear … |
| 23 | If you 're determined to enjoy the rest of your life you will ! |
| 24 | She gave notice that she is determined to live the rest of her life as a woman independent in her own right , unfettered by false loyalties to the Royal Family . |
| 25 | We have managed to get the rest of Europe to come up to our standards , get rid of vaccination and introduce a slaughter policy in relation to foot and mouth disease . |
| 26 | Yet here I was , in sedate and semi-exclusive Ramillies Drive , being urged to spend the rest of the afternoon with a successful chartered accountant and his wife , being plied with expensive wine and prawn-flavoured corn snacks , being courted . |