• He rested his eyes then, thinking about everything he had just found out and how it would affect his future.
• He then went home, had dinner and rested his legs after an exhausting walk to church.
• We walked for a few minutes while he rested his legs and gave his arches a little break.

• His novel features a day in the life of a ‘resting’ actor.
• Coincidentally, I'm also an actor, resting between jobs.
• It is essential to realise that, on average, actors spend about 80% of their working life 'resting'.

• And he was the first coach to make sure his best players were rested for the final minutes of a game.
• Such a lopsided assertion that you shouldn't rest players can be contradicted by considering any of the many times United rested players and still won.
• I understand the temptation to protect players but, given that we can play a maximum of only six games during the tournament, do we really need to worry about resting players?

• I think that the matter might have rested there if it were not for the fact that many schools, and their teachers and students, felt cheated.
• After all, surely this organisation could put the matter to rest once and for all.
• So far as the Newsletter is concerned, I think it is probably best to let the matter rest for the time being.

• There were three solutions to this problem: fertilizing, rotating crops, and resting the land.
• The land was rested, abundant, and fertile; occupied by a people of calm dignity.
• In the Jubilee Year, too, the land was rested and no work done on it.

• His body rests in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, a small chantry chapel adjoining the north choir aisle and only completed in 1969.
• The body rests among greenery, a symbol of life and rejuvenation.
• Isis looked long at the sarcophagus, if the legends were true the body of Osiris rested in the stone structure in front of her.

• He adjusted his position to rest his arm against the chair beside him and motioned toward her.
• I then lay my arms out on the table, next to her elbows and rested my cheek against hers.
• He turned slightly to face her, resting his arm and elbow upon the back of the bench.

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• Emmanuel looked around the room and caught sight of the pistols; his eyes rested on the weapons, and he pointed to them.
• Luke said with a frown, his blue eyes finally resting on the table in front of him.
• He scanned the bushes and his eyes rested upon a wisp of red at the base of a bush.

• Consider this pragmatically, too - if you were in a relationship with somebody of dubious fidelity would you want to rest things on the hope that other women would turn him down when he wanted them?
• ‘He appears to rest his confidence in a few people whose judgment corresponds to his gut instincts’ he said.
• However, the company rests this view on the fact that so many more people get their news from the local newspaper, the local news show, and, to a lesser extent, other outlets.

• The ultimate responsibility rests with those who refuse to change racist structures and policies.
• Ultimate responsibility rests with the board, which was doubled from six members to 12.
• The ultimate responsibility for screening newborns rests with the attending physician.

• Each atom has an unchanging shape and size and a changeable degree of motion or rest.
• In the beginning in his omnipotence he created matter, along with its motion and rest.
• The three other rooms in the exhibition are devoted to food and drink, sleep and wakefulness, and motion and rest.

• As he progresses, he will also learn to distinguish various musical expressions such as time signature, rests, and tempo.
• Long drawn lines interspersed amid the text act as scripted silences, musical rests.

• The measure of five syllables is almost always inconvenient in utterance and should be broken up, by a rest, into two portions.
• The verse is clearly to be read aloud as three beats followed by a rest, followed by three more beats, followed by a rest — and therefore as two tetrameters in a row, each of which has its fourth beat silent.

• This is a stylish and very practical telephone rest, which comes with a handy desk pen.
• There is a small hanging device in the receiver rest to prevent the receiver from falling when it is placed on the rest with the telephone mounted on the wall.

• I was busy laughing at him as he was having to use all the furniture (extended cue, extended rest etc).
• Protect your furniture and your cues with this beautiful Luxury Leather Cue Rest with moveable arms and protective feet.

• The programmer bowed his head along with the rest of them but remained unmoved.
• The rest of the rules remain the same so any posts you find must be recent etc.
• The rest of us remained silent, watching Devin and Jonas and waiting for their cues.

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