Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [art] whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean I ai n't doing it for a whole week . |
| 5 | ‘ If you invite someone , you invite them for the whole day . ’ |
| 6 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 9 | Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing . |
| 10 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |