Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 3 | I worked for the rest of the morning and in the late afternoon , rang Highbury to tell them I was safely back and ask how they fared . |
| 4 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 5 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 6 | Would it be alright if I stayed for the rest of the afternoon ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In 1832 Nicholas made a trade agreement with Washington which lasted for the rest of the century . |
| 9 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 10 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 11 | We sat for the rest of the evening with that particularly pleasant feeling which comes when the jobs aboard are getting seen to and the heaviest thing you 've lifted , thus far , is a glass . |
| 12 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |
| 13 | By mutual consent , it seemed , they spoke for the rest of the meal of anything but the one topic that was on both their minds . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | During World War I he was political agent with the Waziristan Frontier Force , and also held a temporary commission in the RAF as a pilot ( 1918 ) , an experience which evidently instilled an enthusiasm for flying which he retained for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | A conventional Victorian naturalist at first , Selous developed an aversion to blood sports and to all forms of scientific collecting involving cruelty to animals — against which , as a self-styled ‘ life-loving naturalist ’ , he campaigned for the rest of his life , earning the enmity of certain important figures in the ornithological establishment of the day . |
| 17 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 18 | He must have sickened on his own gall , for he disappeared for the rest of the evening . |
| 19 | When the Gamble & Crosfields partnership was dissolved in 1845 , Shanks became a partner in the new firm , Crosfield Bros. & Co. , a position he held for the rest of his life . |
| 20 | When the partnership was dissolved he moved his office to Great George Street , Westminster , where it remained for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | He then became professor in Basle , where he remained for the rest of his long life . |
| 22 | After his recovery he returned to England , whee he remained for the rest of his life , becoming a naturalized Englishman . |
| 23 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |