Example sentences of "he [vb past] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the rest of the money from cashed-in life insurance policies . |
| 2 | He emptied the rest of the wine into their glasses and wondered if he should order another . |
| 3 | He devoted the rest of his life to bringing order to the parliamentary records after what he called the ‘ negligence ’ of his predecessors . |
| 4 | The primary task that de Gaulle set for himself in 1944 and to which he devoted the rest of his political life was the reconstitution of the French state into a state that could unite the nation , mobilize its energies , provide vigorous leadership , and stabilize France 's erratic course through the twentieth century . |
| 5 | He moved the rest of the boxes in less than a minute . |
| 6 | He surveyed the rest of the company . |
| 7 | Then he dropped the rest of the portion back on the plate , went to the fridge , poured the dregs of a bottle of wine into a glass and drank it . |
| 8 | ‘ Right — follow them , ’ he commanded the rest . |
| 9 | He poured the rest of the water into the flask . |
| 10 | With a squad of boys from the school he uncovered the rest of the pavement which appeared to be a corridor of a building . |
| 11 | He quaffed the rest of his drink and sighed . |
| 12 | He spent the rest of his life in expertise , painstakingly cataloguing the pictures and drawings of his favoured period , the Italian Renaissance , and in giving advice , notably to the great Bostonian collector , Mrs Gardner , and the main dealer of the period , Joseph Duveen . |
| 13 | If he lifted a piece of chalk or opened a book , it usually tired him out so much that he spent the rest of the lesson dozing . |
| 14 | He spent the rest of the double period seated at a desk in the corridor copying chunks of Shakespeare plays onto pieces of file paper . |
| 15 | He spent the rest of his life adding to his materia medica and developing his ideas about disease and its treatment . |
| 16 | He spent the rest of his life living out that experience . |
| 17 | Three weeks later his last first-class innings brought him 62 for Victoria at Sydney , and then marriage took him to Adelaide , where he spent the rest of his days . |
| 18 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 19 | He spent the rest of the war in intelligence work in Mesopotamia , Salonika , and Italy . |
| 20 | He returned to the Survey in 1919 and , with the exception of a period as deputy master , security printing ( 1926–9 ) , he spent the rest of his career with the Survey . |
| 21 | He spent the rest of his time in the local bar , which I 'd called The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . |
| 22 | Robbie was dying to ask why — how he spent the rest of his time , what job he was in . |
| 23 | Sri Ramana used to say that he had only one experience in his life ; he spent the rest working it out . |
| 24 | He spent the rest of the number trying to latch on to the ‘ partners ’ of all the other male dancers . |
| 25 | He swallowed the rest of the coffee , managed to grin at Monica , then Evelyn was back on the line . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think he needed the rest of the class , I do n't think he even needed us , his teachers . |
| 27 | You got your own wages out of that and he kept the rest . |
| 28 | Then he counted the rest of the money in the box and frowned . |
| 29 | Since he looked after her as carefully as he did the rest , the princess too was happy to share their life in the forest . |
| 30 | That scene , as Golding has often told , was the first he conceived of , and he invented the rest of the book with the conclusion already in mind ; and it tells of a frightened boy ‘ tensed for more terrors ’ who staggers to his feet to find not his tormentors but an officer in a white-topped cap : |