Example sentences of "whole afternoon " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember sitting there one whole afternoon with him while he had flu or something , and these people beating down the door . |
| 2 | So we spent the whole afternoon in aimless beer-drinking and student ragging , singing student songs to stamping feet and clapping hands . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Cress is a busy woman , I am astonished she would waste a whole afternoon in such a way . |
| 4 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 5 | He looked bewildered , but the whole afternoon must have seemed so unbelievable to him that hopping into a boat would seem to be all of a piece . |
| 6 | The class had taken a whole afternoon to find him buried beneath his precious collection and he had been more concerned about his stones than himself . |
| 7 | On the following day the little Englishman … had his violin brought to our rooms and played the whole afternoon , Wolfgang accompanying on his own . |
| 8 | He used it almost every day , often spending a whole afternoon on it . |
| 9 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 10 | The whole afternoon was spent meandering in and out of the welcoming homes of Miss Kerr 's ageing contemporaries . |
| 11 | Lola Hahn-Warburg could call on the services of a neurologist ‘ who is at our disposal every second Thursday for a whole afternoon ’ , a psychologist and two psychiatric workers . |
| 12 | The visit to her doctor , however straightforward physically , had upset her considerably and disrupted her whole afternoon . |
| 13 | As a result , I spent a lot of time in training — sometimes a whole afternoon — when I could have been at school . |
| 14 | The 120 pupils met normally in groups of thirty , but for these occasions were divided into eight groups of fifteen , and the twelve periods a week in fact came out as two double periods , one whole morning and one whole afternoon . |
| 15 | This was , perhaps , because there was an increasing number of women readers with leisure to spend a whole afternoon buried in a book from the lending library , institutions which flourished mightily in the years between 1918 and 1945 and even somewhat later . |
| 16 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 17 | When he was researching for Madame Bovary , Flaubert spent a whole afternoon examining the countryside through pieces of coloured glass . |
| 18 | We would meet in the balera and spend the whole afternoon dancing together . |
| 19 | Laura was doubtful whether the little girl ought to be allowed to go out like that alone with an old man , and not a very scrupulous one at that , for a whole afternoon . |
| 20 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 21 | On Saturday 11th November five members of the Society met the owner of the Glenburrell bridge , Major Minton Beddoes , who kindly spent the whole afternoon with us discussing , not only the bridge itself , but various aspects of the line such as access to it and possible future developments . |
| 22 | in the Pincio for a whole afternoon . |
| 23 | You got a bit of training first and the adventure took a whole afternoon . |
| 24 | ‘ Ramsbum was on duty that whole afternoon . |
| 25 | ‘ Great ! ’ he said , ‘ The old bugger left me in charge of the shop for the whole afternoon . |
| 26 | and I think that rather ruined the whole afternoon erm |
| 27 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
| 28 | He turned the clock back to 1926 in his south Armagh centre hostelry , and sold drinks at pre-war prices — pints fivepence , and shorts threepence — for a whole afternoon ! |
| 29 | In July 1972 I spent a whole afternoon discussing teaching and children with the headmaster of what corresponded roughly to a middle school . |
| 30 | So in the beginning do you think you were speaking about a whole afternoon and an evening to make the coffin or all day ? |