Example sentences of "like the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the rest of the glass , he wrote , it defies the second law of thermo-dynamics . |
| 2 | To this Leonard went , and there he stayed for several months , playing his part in the Pullman household under the terse agreement : ‘ If you stay , you 'll pull your weight , like the rest of us ’ ; ensconced in a lively family atmosphere for the first time in years . |
| 3 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 4 | It was well taken , like the rest of his scoring chances on a wet , grey afternoon . |
| 5 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 6 | Like the rest of the world he could see that one possible successor was larger in stature than the others . |
| 7 | Everybody 's shop was making a lot of money and we just could n't bear the thought of us all getting like the rest of the industry . |
| 8 | In the car , leaning her head on his consenting but exasperated shoulder , she said , ‘ We do n't have to be like the rest of the people round here . |
| 9 | In the gents of these there would sometimes be those urinals — you know the ones , shaped like a maiden 's hand — with one positioned for kids ten centimetres up the wall and not sixty centimetres up like the rest . |
| 10 | Like the rest of humanity , he reflected , the Carousel staff were disappointingly inconsistent . |
| 11 | If in the year 2000 the EC is able to pass these tests as well as it does today , but on the altogether higher plane which 1992 implies , the rest of Europe , like the rest of the world , will have cause to be grateful . |
| 12 | But the people trying to implement policies remain human , and therefore fallible , like the rest of us ; cases of ‘ indiscipline ’ , corruption and general inefficiency now surface with embarrassing frequency . |
| 13 | Had a parachute on his back just like the rest , and holding out the holy cross in his hand . |
| 14 | ‘ She was a beautiful child , too , and tall — not like the rest of us . |
| 15 | For my father 's part , he accepted Jane 's presence without question ; and she had consideration for his duodenal ulcer , and looked up to him as head of the household , and fitted in like the rest of us . |
| 16 | Her face , like the rest of her , was round and welcoming . |
| 17 | Like the rest of his junk . ’ |
| 18 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 19 | ‘ But like the rest of the family I am very proud of little Kylie . |
| 20 | Like the rest of us , he knew , or thought he knew , that in the 18th century ‘ the riot was probably a more effective curb on the government ’ than either the Lords or the House of Commons — ‘ England 's strongest countervailing force ’ . |
| 21 | And Andy Wood 's gruesomely gooey Glace Cherries was both realistic and funny — but , like the rest of the show , had overdone the sugar . |
| 22 | ‘ After all , ’ Katerina Hartmann defiantly says , ‘ we were just fighting for our country like the rest of the world . ’ |
| 23 | Eagle Star , one of Britain 's major composite insurers , had a disastrous 1991 like the rest of the general insurance industry . |
| 24 | Why was n't he afraid like the rest of us ? |
| 25 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 26 | Next time you see him , he 'll be using a knife and fork like the rest of us . |
| 27 | The lenses , like the rest of the exoskeleton , are made of calcite . |
| 28 | That , like the rest , is hourly bought and sold |
| 29 | I should be dead like the rest of them ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm like the rest of you . |