Example sentences of "he [vb past] for 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He must have sickened on his own gall , for he disappeared for the rest of the evening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He then became professor in Basle , where he remained for the rest of his long life . |
| 8 | After his recovery he returned to England , whee he remained for the rest of his life , becoming a naturalized Englishman . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |