Example sentences of "[prep] the rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying a virgin till you meet the right person — also a virgin — and … staying faithful to that one person for the rest of your life . |
| 2 | Aim at having only 1 sexual partner for the rest of your life |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 4 | The slip is used just to get rid of the excess height so that less than full airbrake is required for the rest of the approach . |
| 5 | She did routine office stuff for the rest of the day , and only re-read it at five . |
| 6 | Come over and I 'll wine you and dine you and make love with you for the rest of your life . |
| 7 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 8 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 9 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 10 | Contact should be made with the nearest medical school of H.M. Inspector of Anatomy whose address may be obtained from London Anatomy Office , P.O. Box 915 , London W6 8RP ( South East England ) , or the H.M. Inspector of Anatomy at the Department of Health and Social Security , Eileen House , 80–94 Newington Causeway , London , SE1 6EF ( for the rest of England and Wales ) . |
| 11 | The strict rules of disposing of redundant vehicles by public tender was forgotten for the rest of the stock , dismantled very much behind closed doors at Derby Works . |
| 12 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |
| 13 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 14 | If to do this , if to be a Whistler at best , in the art of poetry , is to reach the height of poetic expression , then Ezra and Eliot have approached it and tant pis for the rest of us . |
| 15 | Burrows seems to have lived with his material for so long that he has forgotten to throw out enough clues for the rest of us , and there are few hints as to why certain sequences are so important that they should be repeated over and over again But what constantly saves the piece from disappearing into itself is the obliquely moving nature of the central relationship and some patchy but startlingly lovely dance images . |
| 16 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 17 | If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week . |
| 18 | The LA Plan has direct implications , practical and political , for the rest of the country , and the rest of the world . |
| 19 | For the rest of this unbudgeably static play , the couple lounge around discussing the pros and cons of doing a bunk . |
| 20 | In exchange for $1,000 , each ‘ partner ’ was promised a three-night stay at the hotel every year for the rest of their lives . |
| 21 | ‘ But the irony of a mould-breaking programme like Python is that it is a dead-end , a spoiler for the rest of us . |
| 22 | ‘ Joisey ’ is still the butt of jokes made by New York sophisticates , but its political leaders , like the outgoing Governor Kean , now have national stature and have taken the lead in forming social policy for the rest of America on welfare reform , school financing , public housing and care of the environment . |
| 23 | Certainly her marriage involved financial sacrifice and for the rest of her life she was almost always short of money . |
| 24 | Following reports in Manchester that the firm had confirmed to Edwards 's satisfaction that Knighton had the £10m to buy his stake and a further £10m to make a formal offer for the rest of the shares , Laing & Cruickshank said : ‘ It is completely untrue that we have given an assurance to anyone . |
| 25 | If UAP can buy the Trans-Atlantic stake , it would be obliged to bid for the rest of the capital . |
| 26 | Turning to the White Paper , to be published before the next party conference , he said it would set out the Conservatives ' agenda for the rest of this century . |
| 27 | If Richemont should buy out the Philip Morris stake it would trigger an obligation to bid for the rest of the shares . |
| 28 | On preview day ( 19 October ) tickets are £10 ; for the rest of the show , £5 for adults , £3 for children and OAPs . |
| 29 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 30 | I did n't speak to her for the rest of the day , of course , and this made her laugh , I do n't know why . |