Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] 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 is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They cut off their hands so that they go about for the rest of their lives with bleeding stumps . ’ |
| 6 | It rumbled on for the rest of the week . |