Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 2 | There seemed only one answer , for India had seldom boasted fast bowlers of sufficient quality to operate much beyond the first half-dozen shine-removing overs before the spinners came on for the rest of the innings . |
| 3 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 4 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 6 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 7 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 8 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 9 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 10 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |
| 11 | Queen Margaret sat at the head of the cracked , dangerously shaky table whilst Catesby ordered benches to be brought in for the rest . |
| 12 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 13 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 14 | He was the brave young knight storming the parapet of Alexandria , crying out for the rest to join him . |
| 15 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 16 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 17 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’ |
| 19 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 20 | Demographic circumstances around that time tend to have substantial effects on the type and quality of housing which many people will live in for the rest of their lifetimes . |
| 21 | And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 22 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 23 | We 're just taking a bag , we 'll come back for the rest when the wind 's gone down . " |
| 24 | Eight cars were illuminated , including car 3 of 1885 ( see p. 37 ) , and the lights were kept on for the rest of the season to enhance the scene . |
| 25 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
| 26 | St Albans held on for the rest of the match to win 2–1 and take the ladies ' title for the second time and make up for four previous final defeats by Mutineers . |
| 27 | BBC closed down for the rest of the day , except for news . ’ |
| 28 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 29 | No-one could be spared to get fresh cots , so these men from farthest Arran and the Rhondda Valley sat up for the rest of the night with a brown baby under each arm . |
| 30 | He went out immediately , and stayed out for the rest of the week-end . |