Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for the rest of " 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 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
16 | ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’ |
17 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | BBC closed down for the rest of the day , except for news . ’ |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | He went out immediately , and stayed out for the rest of the week-end . |