Example sentences of "the rest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When some flowers start to wilt , trim the rest for a smaller arrangement . |
| 2 | I saw touches of truth and nature , and took the rest for granted . |
| 3 | Jessy works in the home and grows vegetables , selling what she can and keeping the rest for the family . |
| 4 | Although there are some marvellous cookery books for single people — Delia Smith 's ‘ One is Fun ’ is a good example — I have always found that the trick is not to cook for one , but to cook for four , or whatever the recipe you are following suggests , and to freeze the rest for further meals . |
| 5 | This state can be induced in about three-quarters of the population ; the rest for some unknown reason can not achieve it even if they wish to do so . |
| 6 | Even when I had money in the bank , I would buy cheap and cheerful clothes , books , food and other essentials — and save the rest for a rainy day which never came . |
| 7 | Told me I could burn the rest for all she cared . |
| 8 | Some $4m will also be used for capital expenditures and the rest for possible acquisitions . |
| 9 | Koriyama city was able to provide the museum with a budget of ¥6,400 million ( £26.6 million ) , spending ¥4,000 million ( £16.6 million ) on the building and reserving the rest for acquisitions . |
| 10 | Pour in the warm mulberries , with just a little of their juice , reserving the rest for later , and leaving enough room at the top for a covering layer of bread slices . |
| 11 | We treat just a couple , place some in the exercises and leave the rest for the reader to prove for himself or look up in , for example , [ 24 ] . |
| 12 | In essence , you simply need to use an outline of what the screen should show , and the software more or less does the rest for you . |
| 13 | It had a designated capacity of around 1,100,000 tonnes of steel a year , of which about half was destined for domestic use and the rest for export . |
| 14 | In its first loan to Venezuela for 25 years , the World Bank on June 15 agreed a sum of $755,000,000 , 25 per cent of which would be set aside for debt reduction , the rest for structural programmes and in support of economic reforms . |
| 15 | ‘ Kenny did stand out from the rest for the job , but it was an extremely hard decision , ’ said Gage . |
| 16 | Prof Anderson said : ‘ We believe that initially about 90 per cent of sewage will be used for landfill and the rest for fertiliser , but these figures will be reversed as more farmers and forestry organisations make use of sludge . ’ |
| 17 | The tax man will get a large slice leaving the rest for contractors to pay for administration and potentially massive profits . |
| 18 | We 'll leave the rest for dad . |
| 19 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
| 20 | As the edges of the field are normally the most shaded and sheltered from the drying wind , the outside four to six rows are first raked towards mid-field and the rest towards the hedge . |
| 21 | On either side , white-painted kerb stones glowed faintly through the blackness as she walked with the rest towards the sound of the dancing , for ears were of more use than eyes in the blackout . |
| 22 | Half of the sum would go towards the productive sector and the rest towards education , health and the repair of water supply systems . |
| 23 | He watched her putting the ingredients into two vessels , the dry ones in a large bowl on the kitchen table , and the rest into a saucepan on the massive Aga cooker . |
| 24 | As they began to gather the berries , eating the sweetest , darkest red ones , and putting the rest into their baskets to take home , the sun came out . |
| 25 | Mr Devall said if the nitrate removal plant house was built it would take water from the Stour , remove nitrates from part of it for drinking water in Essex and return the rest into the Stour . |
| 26 | Half way through Edward gave up , scraped the rest into Tam 's food bowl and put the kettle on for a cup of tea ; behind him , Tam slurped as though rescued from the brink of starvation . |
| 27 | " Distractedly , he began to change hammer , pouch , pipe and matches from hand to hand , dropping them and picking them up , before finally deciding to put the hammer down and stuff the rest into his pockets . |
| 28 | Moving forward , the woman poured some of the freshly brewed ch'a into their bowls , then the rest into the chung , setting the lid back on . |
| 29 | Stir one third into the hot milk chocolate custard and the rest into the plain . |
| 30 | Fold one third of the egg whites and one third of the cream into the milk chocolate and fold the rest into the plain . |