Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ May I speak , Miss Emily ? ’ he said gruffly and , when she nodded , he gestured towards the rest of the staff . |
| 4 | He stripped off the rest of her clothes , then took off his own , all the time feasting his eyes on her nakedness before lying down next to her . |
| 5 | From his bedroom he communicated with the rest of the world through the power of the postage stamp . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He cut off the rest of the frantic protest with his mouth , wrenching her against him and covering her angrily parted lips with his own . |
| 8 | In spite of these reservations , he worked on the rest of the poem very quickly and its last three sections were drafted before the end of that month . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He must have sickened on his own gall , for he disappeared for the rest of the evening . |
| 11 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 12 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 13 | ‘ And the Lowly … ’ he glowered at the rest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were not far out of Belfast when Mallachy woke up , and all he wanted from the rest of the day , he said , was his own wee bed and no one in it . |
| 16 | He then became professor in Basle , where he remained for the rest of his long life . |
| 17 | After his recovery he returned to England , whee he remained for the rest of his life , becoming a naturalized Englishman . |
| 18 | In business for himself , first near St Paul 's , but by 1812 firmly established at the Royal Exchange in Cornhill ( where he remained for the rest of his career , apart from an enforced absence during the rebuilding of 1838–44 ) , Wilson became the determined champion of a free press — ‘ It is like the air we breathe ; if we have it not , we die . ’ |