Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] for [art] rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid I shall be very much tied up for the rest of today . |
| 2 | Look , Folly — I 'm going to be pretty tied up for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 4 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 7 | Queen Margaret sat at the head of the cracked , dangerously shaky table whilst Catesby ordered benches to be brought in for the rest . |
| 8 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose you 're fixed up for the rest of the evening ? ’ |
| 10 | And when people send her christmas cards everyone 's gon na spell it wrong and she 's gon na be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 11 | No I know but everyone would think she was called Samantha and she 'd be pissed off for the rest of her life . |
| 12 | Eight cars were illuminated , including car 3 of 1885 ( see p. 37 ) , and the lights were kept on for the rest of the season to enhance the scene . |
| 13 | Lower bruised his left leg and was stood down for the rest of the afternoon by the course doctors . |