Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] for the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ She must stand half an hour longer on that chair , and nobody may speak to her for the rest of the day . ’ |
| 3 | And she said well I 'm not gon na speak to you for the rest of the week then . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career . |
| 7 | He 's got this really boring name — Stuart Hughes , I ask you , there 's a career in soft furnishings for you , no qualifications needed except the perfect name , sir , and you 've got it — and he 's quite complacent about answering to it for the rest of his days . |