Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 2 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 3 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 4 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 5 | Surveys will be made of recruitment to four manual occupations ( skilled and semi-skilled ) , using the methodology developed in the earlier study of non-manual occupations : selection of samples of specific job vacancies and interviewing the relevant recruitment decision makers , shortly after the vacancy has been filled , to question them about the whole process of recruitment from identification of a vacancy to selecting and appointing a new employee . |
| 6 | ‘ If you invite someone , you invite them for the whole day . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 8 | What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board . |
| 9 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 10 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 11 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 12 | I could get no further information from Mrs Fairfax about Mr Rochester , but instead she offered to show me round the whole house . |
| 13 | What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’ |
| 14 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 15 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 16 | Why not circulate them to the whole group . |
| 17 | Circulate them to the whole group , right . |
| 18 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 19 | Her case had been that the husband had deliberately refrained from discussing the matter of the charge with her during the whole weekend . |
| 20 | William took her through the whole story . |
| 21 | He did n't want to tempt fate , but fate had brought them together again and now there was only him and her in the whole world . |
| 22 | On the roof beam , stretching above him across the whole width of the room , was carved and gilded the minatory text , ‘ God 's eye seeth all ’ . |
| 23 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 24 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 25 | we do n't want to give em it for the whole year . |
| 26 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 27 | If it 's your birthday then I write a song or an ode and you share it with the whole restaurant — everyone joins in . ’ |
| 28 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
| 29 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 30 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |