Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ent you goin' to open the rest ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | This time he can look out for himself , I 'm going to get the rest home on time . ’ |
| 4 | Now she knew beyond any doubt that they were going to spend the rest of the evening together . |
| 5 | I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 6 | and we looked on it more as a party and a family gathering and showing everybody else that we were now committed and we 're going to spend the rest of our lives together . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're twenty-seven years old , not a child ; are you going to spend the rest of your life wrapped in a cocoon in case you get hurt ? |
| 8 | We 're going to spend the rest of the session on time management . |
| 9 | It is beginning to transform the rest , he wrote . |
| 10 | A small reward for having to live the rest of his days with a deformed jaw , thanks to your husband . ’ |
| 11 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 12 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 13 | Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale . |
| 14 | You 're trying to shut your eyes to 1993 , that 's what you 're trying to do , and you 're trying to pull the rest of us down with it , well it ai n't gon na happen . |
| 15 | The British Goverenemnt wants all ferries to be updated by 1993 and it 's trying to persuade the rest of the world to agree , but the families say its taking too long . |
| 16 | Invigorated by a boom in new issues on Wall Street , these firms are hoping to conquer the rest of the world too . |
| 17 | I 'm too busy trying to make a tape of someone mowing the lawn who is also trying to watch the Cup Final , who is trying to get the rest of the family to shut up . |
| 18 | ‘ Not really — I 'm still trying to swallow the rest of my feet , ’ she confessed ruefully . |
| 19 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 20 | Both of them ( for different reasons ) were anxious about seeming to exclude the rest of the household , each of them still ( even after so long ) unsure of her claims on the other . |