Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid it 's a good deal classier than the tumble-down old Pullmans I 've found for the rest of you . ’ |
| 3 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 4 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 5 | ‘ What do you want to do for the rest of your life , Carol ? |
| 6 | He began again , ‘ What are you intending to do for the rest of the evening ? ’ he rasped . |
| 7 | She had never been quite the calm resolute individual which she managed to appear to the rest of the world . |
| 8 | Finally , there are those subjects — like English , history and philosophy — which provide critical intellectual training of a kind that will prove invaluable , whatever you choose to do with the rest of your life . |
| 9 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |
| 10 | Polly laid her palms against the strong hard face she loved so much , knowing exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life . |
| 11 | From this time the permanent mass party became the dominant factor in the politics of Western capitalist societies , and during the twentieth century it has spread throughout the rest of the world , though in diverse forms . |
| 12 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 13 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 14 | After parting from his jockey Macer Gifford at the very first fence he had continued with the rest of the field all the way round , clearing every obstacle and keeping with the herd . |
| 15 | But if the defendant lost , he was ordered to pay his outstanding debt by instalments and if he defaulted on any one of them , he had to pay over the rest in one lump . |
| 16 | Compared to what he had seem of the rest of the house , this was luxurious . |
| 17 | He had a cat flap in the flat door if he wanted to get into the rest of the house and Fenella had thoughtfully left my kitchen window wide open so he could come and go that way via the flat roof of the kitchen extension next door . |