Example sentences of "the rest of my [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be ‘ sent to Coventry ’ ; and be considered as a coward for the rest of my school-days . |
| 2 | I spoke in the church on Sundays , but Arthur Nicholls did the rest of my work . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm saying I 'm not spending the rest of my life in a Salvation Army hostel or a DHSS hotel or any other kind of hostel . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 5 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 6 | If I plead guilty to that , I thought , I 'll end up in the nick for the rest of my life . |
| 7 | To me it is a worthwhile occupation and one which I am convinced will stand me in good stead for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 8 | But the memory of those sacred bones remained engraved upon my memory for the rest of my life . |
| 9 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 10 | When my doctor saw me and heard how much I was working and about the rest of my life , he was absolutely horrified . |
| 11 | ‘ I would not have the slightest objection to living the rest of my life here , ’ said Jose Rizal . |
| 12 | He can do whatever he likes , and I will be a slave the rest of my life . |
| 13 | The immigrant ship to South Africa , and all that followed , was still in the womb of time ; but at that moment I resolved that though I would grieve for Leslie for the rest of my life , I would yet to go forward , lighting my way by the torch of the incandescent spirit . |
| 14 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 15 | When I think of my previous existence — of all I thought I could reasonably expect of the rest of my life , an allowed place at the extreme corner of someone 's drawing-room carpet , a Servant 's garret or no better , I give thanks for every little thing , which is unspeakably dear to me . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 17 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 18 | The copy of the tune ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ that exists in my brain will last only for the rest of my life . |
| 19 | The only important thing about the rest of my life was that it was there . |
| 20 | We were fortunate in having an outdoor swimming-pool , and it was there that I learned to swim , and have continued to enjoy swimming the rest of my life . |
| 21 | My mother , having been deprived of one prospective son-in-law , Cedric , now got it in to her head that I might meet an American , and decide to marry him and live the rest of my life in the USA , where she could n't get at me and see what was going on . |
| 22 | Even after I was married and had children , and had travelled extensively in Africa and North America , I still used to wake up sometimes sweating in fear , convinced that I was still in the Waaf and for some mysterious reason unable to obtain my release , but was condemned to remain in the Force for the rest of my life . |
| 23 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 24 | I would be on my bike for the rest of my life , stuck on the stopping train to nowhere . |
| 25 | ‘ It was something that I will live with for the rest of my life . |
| 26 | It would be a pity , but I have a lifetime exemption at Augusta , I can play in the tournament for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Shall not I be chained like a prisoner to a child for the rest of my life ? |
| 28 | And it 's something I 'll remember for the rest of my life . |
| 29 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 30 | ‘ I will never understand this for the rest of my life . |