Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the controller was n't busy I asked for the rest of the weather , and was told three at 800 , or 900 feet above the threshold of Runway 18 . |
| 2 | They are yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , to give away , rent to friends , or to sell as you choose . |
| 3 | Yours to enjoy for the rest of your life , rent to friends , sell , give away , or even pass on to your children . |
| 4 | I doze for the rest of the day , like a cat . |
| 5 | There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there . |
| 6 | I worked for the rest of the morning and in the late afternoon , rang Highbury to tell them I was safely back and ask how they fared . |
| 7 | But the only person I saw for the rest of that day , besides the German who brought my food and took me to the lavatory , was the English orderly . |
| 8 | A very cold lump formed at the back of my spine while I waited for the rest of it . |
| 9 | Would it be alright if I stayed for the rest of the afternoon ? |
| 10 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 11 | As Tom Wolfe once remarked about Phil Spector , another creative talent who peaked when he was young : what do you do for the rest of your life ? |
| 12 | I HOPE YOU WEEP FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE |
| 13 | Finally I went to James Roose-Evans , who 'd adapted 84 Charing Cross Road for the stage and said , ‘ What are you doing for the rest of your life ? ’ |
| 14 | If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man , then wherever you go for the rest of your life , it stays with you , for Paris is a movable feast , Ernest Hemingway to a friend , 1950 . |
| 15 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 16 | The wood cracked against Belle 's hands and she sat for the rest of the lesson holding her knees . |
| 17 | To come to the point , what shall we do for the rest of the week ? |
| 18 | Our limbs loosened by good wine and song and the penetrating aroma of simmering chicken , we sing for the rest of the night , breaking only to eat . |
| 19 | We sat for the rest of the evening with that particularly pleasant feeling which comes when the jobs aboard are getting seen to and the heaviest thing you 've lifted , thus far , is a glass . |
| 20 | But , apart from the sound of their own slightly laboured breathing as they toiled steadily uphill , the chattering of birds and the rustlings of small animals in the undergrowth were the only sounds they heard for the rest of the day . |
| 21 | By mutual consent , it seemed , they spoke for the rest of the meal of anything but the one topic that was on both their minds . |
| 22 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | During World War I he was political agent with the Waziristan Frontier Force , and also held a temporary commission in the RAF as a pilot ( 1918 ) , an experience which evidently instilled an enthusiasm for flying which he retained for the rest of his life . |
| 24 | ‘ Hauptsturmführer Vaughan will remain and test-fly the plane now and as much as he wants for the rest of the day . |
| 25 | A conventional Victorian naturalist at first , Selous developed an aversion to blood sports and to all forms of scientific collecting involving cruelty to animals — against which , as a self-styled ‘ life-loving naturalist ’ , he campaigned for the rest of his life , earning the enmity of certain important figures in the ornithological establishment of the day . |
| 26 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 27 | He must have sickened on his own gall , for he disappeared for the rest of the evening . |
| 28 | And as Mark Paul , 20 , was led sobbing to the cells , his victim 's mother said bitterly : ‘ I hope he weeps for the rest of his life . ’ |
| 29 | When the Gamble & Crosfields partnership was dissolved in 1845 , Shanks became a partner in the new firm , Crosfield Bros. & Co. , a position he held for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | ‘ He does n't just score goals , he works for the rest of us . |