Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the whole " in BNC.

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1 He 's worried about them the whole time .
2 For them the whole range of feelings of shock , disbelief and anger come into play .
3 When he was hot , he was hot , but for me the whole thing was not so good .
4 After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house .
5 I do n't see how you could do a show , go to an analyst , work on a film and take ‘ poppers ’ or ‘ coke ’ or anything like it the whole time . ’
6 The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland .
7 He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court .
8 Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time .
9 ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime .
10 Yet with Rosemary still refusing to go out with Travis and Travis falling more and more in love with her the whole time , there was no way he could stay away .
11 The banking system — and with it the whole world market economy — was subjected to new risks of insolvency if debtors defaulted or delayed repayment .
12 Before them the bevelled slope , fifteen feet high , cut off from them the whole upper expanse of Aurae Phiala , with all its flower-beds and stone walls ; and all its visitors had vanished with it .
13 In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded , using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual .
14 Thus could pangenesis unify all Darwin 's generation theorizing from gemmules to organisms and on to species , and beyond them the whole tree of life .
15 It hangs over me the whole time .
16 ‘ It seems to me the whole set-up is racist , ’ said Robyn .
17 No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy .
18 Unknown to him the whole contest had been broadcast and his wife and mother-in-law had heard his name …
19 Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid .
20 The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time .
21 I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’
22 From Schupfheim a spectacular minor road runs south for 17km ( 10½ miles ) following the Forest Emme ( Waldemme ) as this stretch of Little Emme is commonly called , through the hills along the Mariental valley to Fluhli and the little climatic resort of Sorenberg ( 1,159m , 3,802ft ) , near which is a cable railway to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn which gives an unrivalled prospect of Lake Brienz and beyond it the whole massif of the Bernese Oberland peaks .
23 I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote .
24 When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing .
25 To us the whole process is upside down .
26 Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey .
27 People who attended were , by and large , enthusiastic about the show but to us the whole thing was a nightmare , says O'Dalaigh .
28 It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck .
29 But — ’ and here she sighed , ‘ Lily darling , I could look and look at him the whole day … ’
30 Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’
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