Example sentences of "he spent the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent the rest of his life in expertise , painstakingly cataloguing the pictures and drawings of his favoured period , the Italian Renaissance , and in giving advice , notably to the great Bostonian collector , Mrs Gardner , and the main dealer of the period , Joseph Duveen . |
| 2 | If he lifted a piece of chalk or opened a book , it usually tired him out so much that he spent the rest of the lesson dozing . |
| 3 | He spent the rest of the double period seated at a desk in the corridor copying chunks of Shakespeare plays onto pieces of file paper . |
| 4 | He spent the rest of his life adding to his materia medica and developing his ideas about disease and its treatment . |
| 5 | He spent the rest of his life living out that experience . |
| 6 | Three weeks later his last first-class innings brought him 62 for Victoria at Sydney , and then marriage took him to Adelaide , where he spent the rest of his days . |
| 7 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 8 | He spent the rest of the war in intelligence work in Mesopotamia , Salonika , and Italy . |
| 9 | He returned to the Survey in 1919 and , with the exception of a period as deputy master , security printing ( 1926–9 ) , he spent the rest of his career with the Survey . |
| 10 | He spent the rest of his time in the local bar , which I 'd called The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . |
| 11 | Robbie was dying to ask why — how he spent the rest of his time , what job he was in . |
| 12 | Sri Ramana used to say that he had only one experience in his life ; he spent the rest working it out . |
| 13 | He spent the rest of the number trying to latch on to the ‘ partners ’ of all the other male dancers . |