Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for the rest " 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 | " I think it would be better if I worked through for the rest of today . |
| 3 | It will do no good at all if it leaves you fuming internally for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 5 | She stayed indoors for the rest of the summer , lying on her bed , trying to read . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | Feeling depressed they worked away for the rest of the night . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 11 | It would have been very easy for me to stay there for the rest of my life . |
| 12 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |
| 13 | And he stayed there for the rest of his life . |