Example sentences of "[noun] [art] whole time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , the spirit of 1992 had not reached the denizens of Elveden Forest ; not one single person played boules the whole time I was there . |
| 2 | He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath . |
| 3 | Rain objected that if that were the case publishers would be getting authors involved in sordid court cases the whole time . |
| 4 | FitzAlan downed another drink , his lowering gaze on Isabel the whole time . |
| 5 | It does n't sound much but you 've got to watch out these days , with everything constantly getting cheaper and Tod grimly counting his money the whole time . |
| 6 | He had his hand on my neck the whole time and kept saying I would get it . |
| 7 | Rather an odd place to camp , having to keep your eye on the tides the whole time . ’ |
| 8 | In my mind the whole time there is the simple question , ‘ What is it the music is supposed to say ? ’ |
| 9 | It was like he had something on his mind the whole time . ’ |
| 10 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 11 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 12 | Twenty children were flown to Croydon , and ‘ They were all cheerfully sick , enticed by the little paper bags , except a baby of one who slept peacefully in my lap the whole time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 14 | But we 're not in each other 's pockets the whole time . |
| 15 | I guess it made a stimulating change for him not to be surrounded by fawners and flatterers the whole time . |
| 16 | ‘ You were in a rotten mood the whole time . |
| 17 | He is not over fond of strangers , but he will allow people into the house , although he monitors their movements the whole time . ’ |
| 18 | We were on our feet the whole time . |
| 19 | Finally when molecular motion increases to a sufficiently high level , all the chains behave like weak springs the whole time . |
| 20 | You would n't like to be chased all over the place the whole time would you ? |
| 21 | She stands squarely with her hands on her hips the whole time , beaming at Crilly and remarking often upon the colour of the sky . |
| 22 | People take to nature the whole time . |
| 23 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |
| 24 | General Ghazi Kenaan , commander of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon , was on top of every move the whole time . |
| 25 | In another letter he wrote : ‘ I did n't see a cock the whole time — except my own and that glimpsed only briefly in a cracked mirror . ’ |
| 26 | I had a tremendous struggle to keep my medication the whole time I was in Holloway , and it started again when I went to Styal . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 29 | He 'll be on tenterhooks the whole time , and muttering to the parents things like : ‘ A true eccentric , our Mr McWhirter , but a very fine scholar in his field . ’ ’ |
| 30 | People were wandering in and out of that room the whole time , he might have been seen . ’ |