Example sentences of "[noun sg] the whole time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had his hand on my neck the whole time and kept saying I would get it . |
| 4 | In my mind the whole time there is the simple question , ‘ What is it the music is supposed to say ? ’ |
| 5 | It was like he had something on his mind the whole time . ’ |
| 6 | He used to sit in his study the whole time . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You were in a rotten mood the whole time . |
| 10 | You would n't like to be chased all over the place the whole time would you ? |
| 11 | People take to nature the whole time . |
| 12 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |
| 13 | General Ghazi Kenaan , commander of Syrian military intelligence in Lebanon , was on top of every move the whole time . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | People were wandering in and out of that room the whole time , he might have been seen . ’ |
| 19 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |
| 20 | I felt tremendous guilt the whole time , I felt so ashamed of these terrible thoughts locked inside me . |
| 21 | but you 're in the water the whole time . |
| 22 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 23 | We fought like cat and dog the whole time we were together — or at least most of the time , ’ she added , remembering , ‘ he made my life an absolute misery ! ’ |
| 24 | That means I can sail happily upwind or downwind in perfect control the whole time . |
| 25 | In my biology lessons at school we were told that humans are the only mammals available for sex the whole time . |
| 26 | But most male mammals are ready for sex the whole time . |
| 27 | ‘ Does he think about sex the whole time ? ’ |
| 28 | You do n't have to say that but we all you know you 're you 're pulling their leg the whole time okay ? |
| 29 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 30 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |