Example sentences of "was [v-ing] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 2 | He did n't realize I was guying the whole idea . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was imagining the whole thing . |
| 4 | Fox , with his assistants , was searching the whole area and no rabbit would have ventured to show its whiskers . |
| 5 | Just trying to put some of those questions to the man was turning the whole ill-fated interview into a monster that dominated a good deal of her thinking . |
| 6 | He was conducting the whole affair with a model of the war zone with cardboard tanks and national flags to identify the blocks of combatants . |
| 7 | He was conducting the whole thing , with a minimum of gesture : a sort of schoolboy Adrian Boult . |
| 8 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |
| 9 | Cottee admits : ‘ There were times when I felt I was carrying the whole world on my shoulders . ’ |
| 10 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 11 | I did n't even have time to say hello before he was telling the whole room about us breaking into Puddephat 's rooms . |
| 12 | As police from the West Mercia force watched the last hippies leave the Common , their Chief Constable was declaring the whole operation a success . |