Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 2 | I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were . |
| 3 | I looked on the whole house as my special possession , thought Sara dismally . |
| 4 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 5 | It was Stalin 's unfortunate deviation which led to the whole series of attempts by Western European Marxists to return-to-Marx — the major examples in France being Sartre and Althusser , and in Germany the Frankfurt School . |
| 6 | The second half of the year witnessed a superficially arcane debate on vodka which touched on the whole question of government finances ( because more than one-third of the state 's revenue derived from its involvement in the vodka trade ) . |
| 7 | So , in his lack of business-like habits , Anselm was only exhibiting a defect which ran through the whole system . |
| 8 | He also built a narrow gauge railway which ran round the whole estate . |
| 9 | He leapt up on to the ledge of rock which ran around the whole island under the overhang like some inside-out cloister , and tied us up . |
| 10 | He remained nearly half an hour turning from side to side as though watching some great action which extended over the whole visible forest . |
| 11 | This necessitated a step up in production in the people-factory which escalated through the whole system until his bath sponge ate him . |
| 12 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 13 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 14 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 15 | One old stalwart who stuck with the whole match contracted such a severe cold that he died of exposure . |
| 16 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 17 | I needed to know how you felt about the whole topic of drugs . ’ |
| 18 | She went over the whole experience of first meeting her husband , their courtship and marriage and life together . |
| 19 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 20 | Before reaching the town of Rock the path runs through the only sand dunes that we encountered on the whole walk . |
| 21 | Therefore we screened off the whole rear of the loft with wire and blankets , and anything else we could lay our hands on . |
| 22 | This was very lucky and one of the two strokes of luck we had on the whole job . |
| 23 | ‘ We ran through the whole scene , dialogue included , ’ she said bitterly . |
| 24 | Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue . |
| 25 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 26 | They went through the whole show in complete silence . |
| 27 | They plodded through the whole range of routine questions . |
| 28 | Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam . |
| 29 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 30 | Then , as they came out onto an open stretch of bitten turf at the foot of the hill where the rabbits were running , as though a signal had been given a universal clamour broke out , a clatter , a din of singing , from the unseen roof-tops of the village behind them , from the beeches on the Down , from the ash trees that stood like singing poles in the hedgerows along the hollow track , from every tree it seemed of the whole vast forest birds were singing and singing and demanding to be heard . |