Example sentences of "it [prep] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 3 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 4 | In truth through the years Tiller Girls danced in ill-fitting shoes and had bunions to prove it for the rest of their lives . |
| 5 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 6 | However , perhaps the National Deaf Club 's most distinguished member was Arthur James Wilson , who succeeded S. Bright Lucas to the presidency and held it for the rest of his life . |
| 7 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 8 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 9 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 10 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
| 11 | The idea for this one was proposed in 1981 , specifically to boost the early evening weekday audience and help to build it for the rest of the evening . |
| 12 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |
| 13 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | I 'll be needing it for the rest of the day , ’ Bishop said . |
| 15 | Appalled by the racism she observed there , she worked energetically against it for the rest of her life , giving extensive financial support to the Black trade union movement . |
| 16 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 17 | Because I 'll be doing it for the rest of my life now . |
| 18 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 19 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 20 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 22 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 23 | Amid the disillusionment felt by some , that the minority of farmers are spoiling it for the rest in not keeping the environment clean , one manufacturer at least , hopes not dampened by the weather , felt there was room for optimism . |
| 24 | Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ? |
| 25 | In other words , he knows the language , in the sense of being able to use it as the rest of us do . |
| 26 | I 'll chop it off the rest |
| 27 | One dog may then try to get between the herd and the straggler , and try to drive it towards the rest of the pack . |
| 28 | It was a family house after all , no doubt Hilbert had intended Adam to share it with the rest of the family . |
| 29 | However , unlike the working-class area , the shopping centre is also a transport centre : there is a main line station on the national rail network and two underground lines connect it with the rest of London . |
| 30 | I do n't want to share it with the rest of the bloody world , and I do n't intend to . |