Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 2 | Second , everything you draw is an object that can be selected , moved , reshaped or deleted independently of the rest . |
| 3 | You see , the more positive side of his personality compensated neatly for the rest . |
| 4 | It was firmly slapped from his hand by his mother , and abashed by her glare he turned away with the rest , to leave the accursed woman alone , abandoned , shunned like a leper . |
| 5 | Tony applauded loudly with the rest and the applause continued until the young man once more strolled on stage , this time dressed as a policeman . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's being Christian again , ’ said Camille , and she and Sam giggled intermittently for the rest of the evening . |
| 7 | Together they worked swiftly through the rest of the queue until at last the flow stopped and the little shop was empty . |
| 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 | He stared slowly round the rest of the group . |
| 11 | They were taken to Stromness police station , and questioned persistently for the rest of the six hours allowed by law . |
| 12 | Jezrael looked obliquely for the rest of her squad . |
| 13 | Athelstan bowed , smiled thinly at the rest of the group , glanced despairingly at the snoring Cranston and led Sir Brian down the corridor . |
| 14 | ‘ We must find him , ’ Fagin said urgently to the rest of them . |
| 15 | Cultural cosmopolitanism at Cyrene meant that its connections ran across to the rest of the Greek world , not down to the natives whom the Greek colonists had displaced or overrun . |
| 16 | She stayed indoors for the rest of the summer , lying on her bed , trying to read . |
| 17 | From Britain the taste spread rapidly to the rest of Europe and to India , where it was very popular in clubs and officers ' messes . |
| 18 | Teenagers with sporty slogans on the back of their jackets sat attentively amid the rest of the crowd . |
| 19 | The blade came down at an angle on my first finger , but chopped straight through the rest . |
| 20 | And he stayed there for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | This he accepted in 1862 and remained there for the rest of his life , being left free to pursue his own research . |
| 22 | Township A stood apart from the rest , having both a very high level of unemployment and a large number of known opioid users . |
| 23 | The urge to succeed and be competitive was stronger in some of us than in others , and although the section was theoretically united there was a faction which stood apart from the rest . |
| 24 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |