Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's your name ? ’ he asked , casually tossing back the rest of the ale . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He now faces seven months in prison serving out the rest of an old jail term , Durham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 5 | When I look at these shabby partygoers waving their coffee-cups and leaning on metal-frame chairs , it 's like the plague has settled on them , and they 're twitching out the rest of their time . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'll give us the extra numbers we 'll need , when it comes to roundin' up the rest of these Triad Jesus freaks . |
| 7 | When you can manage this too , then begin cutting down the rest intervals to one minute . |
| 8 | Look , it 's finishing off the rest of honeysuckle , can you see ? |
| 9 | Taking on the rest of them . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 11 | Andrew Fuller was appointed the first secretary , and Reynold Hogg the treasurer , with Carey , Ryland and Sutcliff making up the rest of the executive committee . |
| 12 | Mankind ( me ) , he thought , mashing up the rest of the mattress because he was n't going to spend the night braced for a lot of bedsprings to bust in their own time , is idyllic in his intentions , tragic in his fate , and farcical in his functions . |
| 13 | And it was the L D C who were responsible for making out the rest day rosters you see . |
| 14 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 15 | For example , I tell you , my boss , what I think you should hear , and leave out much of the rest ; and you , in turn , are telling your boss what you think he or she should hear , again leaving out the rest . |
| 16 | Ready to concentrate on milking and hoeing and clearing away the broad beans and planting out the rest of the cabbages , so that everything was done before the harvest on Tuesday . |
| 17 | The irony of my vision of the glass burning up the rest of the exhibits in the gallery in which it is housed , when here it is , burning up everything around it in this flat , burning me up . |
| 18 | The only sport my old man was interested in was beating up the rest of the family . |
| 19 | The trio scored 6/6 between them in rounds seven and eight and are carving up the rest of the field , none of whom has more than 50 per cent . |