Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 3 | All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict . |
| 4 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 5 | I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why . |
| 6 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 7 | And she said well I 'm not gon na speak to you for the rest of the week then . |
| 8 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 9 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 10 | I think perhaps what 's going to be said to you to the rest of the day erm will actually bring out the key points tha that Hughie was trying , trying to make . |
| 11 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 12 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 13 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 14 | These sounds and sights of East Anglia , she felt , would remain with her for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | If so , it was at Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cummage ’ ) that Coleridge first set foot within that secluded , forgotten territory , bounded by the Quantock Hills and a bleakly impressive coastline , which was to remain with him for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | She knew that was one of many memories which would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 17 | It would stay with her for the rest of her life . |
| 18 | What you learn in a lesson will stay with you for the rest of you life . |
| 19 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 20 | This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career . |
| 21 | A teacher has only to say : " Now which of you girls did — " and my spots merge for a time into the scarlet background provided for them by the rest of my face . |
| 22 | Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement . |
| 23 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 24 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 25 | The impact of visiting the massive tributes to monumental Egyptian architecture at Luxor , the Valley of the Kings , Cairo 's old town and many museums , and of course the great pyramids and Sphinx at Giza , will affect you and stay with you for the rest of your life . |
| 26 | I knew that she now expected me to live with her for the rest of her days . |
| 27 | I need you to love me and make me whole , to live with me for the rest of our lives and be the pride of my heart and the mother of my children … ’ |
| 28 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 29 | Things from childhood live with us for the rest of our lives . |
| 30 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |