Example sentences of "but [verb] the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success , however , ruined its author , who took to strange clothes and beliefs and ‘ never wrote any more , but wasted the rest of his time trying to explain what he had and what he had not meant in John Inglesant' . |
| 2 | He 'd even got the gestation period wrong , but given the rest of it this was a minor consideration . |
| 3 | But I am troubled that he mentions the deaths of British servicemen without any references to the closing of the gates of Mandatory Palestine to the desperate refugees who tried to leave Nazi Germany but found the rest of Europe and the Jewish homeland closed to them . |
| 4 | She was very impressed by Poland 's beautiful mountains , but found the rest of the country grey and the poverty , depressing . |
| 5 | The first and most obvious change is to increase the duration of each exercise , but keeping the rest periods constant , that is 30 seconds ' exercise followed by 1 5 seconds ' rest . |
| 6 | Let us assume you wish to evacuate the nightclub immediately but put the rest of the hotel on standby as there is a good chance of getting the fire extinguished . |
| 7 | Lawton did n't cross himself , Catholic or not , but joined the rest in finding a place to support himself as the wall of water roared silently down on them . |
| 8 | She never had any more visions , but spent the rest of her life pondering the meaning of her sixteen revelations of God 's love . |
| 9 | Tony surprises an oncoming motorist by assuming a position that leaves his legs on the gravel road but takes the rest of him down among the lake-side vegetation . |
| 10 | The only light in the room came from the street lamps which vaguely illuminated one corner of the room but left the rest in shadow . |
| 11 | was coming with clingfilm but stick the rest in there What are you eating ? |
| 12 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |