Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | As schools increase in their heterogeneity , those that serve areas where there is a concentration of disadvantage will watch helpless as the more motivated , more able , more ambitious children move to the favoured schools , leaving them to cope with the rest , and worse , suffer the ignominy of having their results on national tests published , protected only by a general statement from the local authority , indicating ‘ the nature of socio-economic and other influences which are known to affect schools ’ ( Task Group on Assessment and Testing , para 134 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |
| 4 | Yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , rent to friends , sell , give away , or even pass on to your children . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At last there it was , and somehow I got through the rest without further mishap . |
| 7 | I doze for the rest of the day , like a cat . |
| 8 | You 'd better hurry ‘ though before I freeze with the rest of the neat in there . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sadly , my euphoria evaporated as I looked through the rest of the magazine . |
| 13 | Then I looked at the rest of myself , and all the rest of me was a … |
| 14 | As I go through the rest of the presentation you 'll see erm the agenda slides highlighting the area of the architecture we 're talking about in the section . |
| 15 | I grinned to myself as I flipped through the rest of the paper . |
| 16 | I paint in the rest of the window shapes . |
| 17 | I paint in the rest of the window shapes . |
| 18 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 19 | I have covered the whole year , but because January is in your shops , February already subscribed , March imminent and April only recently covered in my monthly column ( 11th December ) , I have not been as detailed with these four months as I have with the rest of the year . |
| 20 | Would it be alright if I stayed for the rest of the afternoon ? |
| 21 | As I laboured through the rest of my own meal we turned our attention to less personally charged topics , like the latest terrorist attack in Northern Ireland and the growing tension in the Lebanon . |
| 22 | In addition , no study of this kind has been conducted in Northern Ireland which differs from the rest of the United Kingdom in a number of pertinent respects . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Renaissance is an Italian phenomenon which spread to the rest of Europe . |
| 25 | Their true love affairs were with the camera and with those flickering images of themselves which turned on the rest of the public as well . |
| 26 | We will refund the part of your premium which applies to the rest of the period of the policy . |
| 27 | We will refund the part of your premium which applies to the rest of the period of the policy . |
| 28 | We will refund the part of your premium which applies to the rest of the period of the policy . |
| 29 | We will refund the part of your premium which applies to the rest of the period of the policy . |
| 30 | Lord Tebbit refused to be daunted by the new legal ruling that a defeat for the Government over Labour 's amendment on the social chapter — which sets out rules on conditions and hours of work which apply throughout the rest of Europe — would not affect ratification . |