Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will do no good at all if it leaves you fuming internally for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | I fumble around for the rest of my kit and fall over Shelagh , who is shining a torch gingerly in one of her boots . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are named in pairs such as Royal and Sovereign , and Jupiter and Saturn , and once paired will work together for the rest of their lives until retirement at the Farm . |
| 5 | The weapon does not fire and can not be used again for the rest of the game . |
| 6 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 7 | Locked away for the rest of his life . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 9 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 14 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's being Christian again , ’ said Camille , and she and Sam giggled intermittently for the rest of the evening . |
| 16 | From then on , Nos. 1–16 were transferred to the Sutton route in 1907 , and on which they were employed exclusively for the rest of their days . |
| 17 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 18 | If you filled this room up with toluene it would stop here for the rest of its days , something like that , you know what I mean . |
| 19 | He was still in bed and felt like staying there for the rest of the day . |
| 20 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |
| 21 | Feeling depressed they worked away for the rest of the night . |
| 22 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Most of them were married , with children : they seemed to be set fair on the roads they would be travelling now for the rest of their lives . |
| 25 | The situation did not bode well for the rest of the week — a particularly difficult one in the gruelling programme . |
| 26 | They worked steadily for the rest of the morning on the management medicals , Rachel and Nina checking weight , testing urine for any signs of sugar diabetes , taking blood samples to test haemoglobin , thyroid function , liver function and cholesterol levels and checking blood-pressure for hypertension . |
| 27 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 30 | They were taken to Stromness police station , and questioned persistently for the rest of the six hours allowed by law . |