Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 2 | He had no idea how long he would have to wait to marry her , but he was prepared to wait for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | The social position into which individuals are born here is the one in which , theoretically , they are bound to remain for the rest of their life . |
| 4 | Ayrton Senna was in the lead and that 's where he would stay for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 5 | Your talk will be the first item on the agenda you need not stay for the rest of the meeting unless you want to . |
| 6 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 7 | Somehow Jack got through the rest of the day and arrived at the hospital tired and miserable . |
| 8 | She got through the rest of the morning as best she could . |
| 9 | I can see you are as addicted to knitting as the rest of us , by the fact that you say Murphy 's Law operates every day ! |
| 10 | But Faye had already turned to the thick , creamy frontispiece to check for herself before leafing through the rest of the volume . |
| 11 | The association has offered the MP free cab rides for the rest of his stay in the resort . |
| 12 | In Braque 's l'Estaque landscapes of the previous year , the two-dimensional surface of the picture is retained partly by allowing the eye no way of escape beyond the mountains , buildings and trees , and here the same effect is achieved by the concrete treatment of the sky , which is as elaborately and solidly painted as the rest of the canvas , and which is fused with the landscape below by the extension into it of all the main compositional lines . |
| 13 | Once it has chosen a mate , it will probably remain loyal to mate and to burrow for the rest of its life — and one ringed Manx shear water is known to have lived for at least twenty-nine years . |
| 14 | He pulled away long enough to strip off the rest of his clothes , and she followed , unable to bear losing contact even for a second , dipping her head forwards to taste his skin , her fingers stroking his muscled back . |
| 15 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 16 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 17 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's something you 'll have to continue for the rest of your life . |
| 19 | In 1910 she returned to London and began her work in biochemistry , which was to continue for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |
| 21 | Yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , rent to friends , sell , give away , or even pass on to your children . |
| 22 | Payment of the annuity was continued by the king 's successor , Richard II , whose favour he was to enjoy for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | We shall be there thanks to the excellent monetary and economic management that we have enjoyed in the 1980s and will continue to enjoy for the rest of the 1990s under a Conservative Government . |
| 24 | According to a report published in the New York Times of Aug. 13 , US administration officials accused the Eritrean authorities of diverting food intended for the rest of Ethiopia . |
| 25 | I checked through the rest of his diaries and every year it was the same , an entry on February the eleventh saying : ‘ Today Elsie is … ’ ' and then her age . |
| 26 | He did n't know the doctor and was very disorientated and frightened for the rest of that day and the next ; but on the following one it was as if it had never happened . |
| 27 | The angel struck Jacob on the thigh and Jacob limped for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | For the first time I saw clearly that it would be impossible to go through the rest of my life with a barrier in my mind between the baby and its conception . |
| 29 | Same goes for the rest of me . |
| 30 | ‘ That goes for the rest of the team . |