Example sentences of "[adv prt] the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , from then on the rest of the evening seemed to be bathed in a glorious , rosy light . |
| 2 | Taking on the rest of them . |
| 3 | He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street . |
| 4 | Instead , he half lifted her down the rest of the stairs meaning to frogmarch her towards the door that led to the yard . |
| 5 | He watched in agony as Ram , with the deliberate movements of long service and old age , tore the cartridge , emptied the powder into the muzzle , and took his ramrod to drive down the rest of the cartridge . |
| 6 | They went into free-fall for half the distance and then floated gently down the rest of the way . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know my lines and I 'm dragging down the rest of the cast . ’ |
| 8 | While the deal goes down the rest of them wait next door . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , have you not ? ’ snapped the other , coming hastily forward to confront her as Theda came down the rest of the stairs . |
| 10 | They galloped down the rest of the long gentle ride to the river , across a wooden bridge , and then up the grassy slopes to the terraces below the house . |
| 11 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 12 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 13 | He reached over for the glass and swallowed down the rest of its contents , eyeing her malevolently . |
| 14 | Craig Brown , the under-21 team manager , has lost three of his current squad — Ferguson , Booth and Wright — to the full squad and has decided to stand down the rest of his Premier Division-based players at a time when league commitments in England have deprived him of Anglos . |
| 15 | Then it will fill in the rest of the sky . |
| 16 | Dawn ( 4.8 ) made a symmetrical pattern of squares with pegs , then filled in the rest of the board , working across and down , always putting in a peg next to one already there but the colours were haphazard . |
| 17 | you have to fill in the rest of that and give it back to me . |
| 18 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 19 | In 1979 there were 3,080 barristers practising in central London and 1,283 spread over the rest of england and Wales ; considering that most courts are now decentralised , this certainly seems to indicate an imbalance . |
| 20 | He suggested we look over the rest of the house . |
| 21 | I 'll be back beneath it when the bird bans come off the rest of this stretch of coast on August 15th , unless the military gives me a very good reason not to in the interim . |
| 22 | Look , it 's finishing off the rest of honeysuckle , can you see ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | An entrance porch , cloakrooms and lavatories made up the rest of the accommodation . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 27 | When they 'd gone Maggie gathered up the rest of the dishes and piled them in the sink . |
| 28 | So the organisation of personnel , budget , physical specifications of buildings , office equipment , etc. take up the rest of the project document and its appendices . |
| 29 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 30 | It would keep me going for the afternoon , until I could heat up the rest of the chicken for supper . |