Example sentences of "my whole life " in BNC.

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1 I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered .
2 as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all .
3 One moment and my whole life was ruined .
4 The nights spent scraping away the silver backing among the best in my whole life , he wrote .
5 My plan was shattered — my whole life had just been shattered .
6 Mozart is my whole life at the moment , ’ says soprano Joan Rodgers .
7 ‘ For the nicest day in my whole life . ’
8 ‘ I treated my own father abominably and no sin in my whole life now seems to be so serious , ’ Lewis blurted out to a correspondent twenty-five years after A. J. Lewis 's demise .
9 If something happened to him , my whole life would be crushed . ’
10 Honey , my whole life is a journey !
11 I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor .
12 I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life .
13 ‘ So far my whole life has been a comedy . ’
14 SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life .
15 ‘ I am heartbroken because football has been my whole life . ’
16 A FORMER nurse put the Queen 's ‘ annus horribilis ’ in perspective yesterday when she said : ‘ My whole life has been horribilis ’ .
17 ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham .
18 He said : ‘ It was the worst thing that 's ever happened to me in my whole life .
19 ‘ It is the most beautiful thing I have had in my whole life . ’
20 ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you .
21 I have never felt as strong as this in my whole life . ’
22 I 'm Mrs Arbuthnot and my whole life is changed for ever .
23 ‘ I do n't want this to change my whole life .
24 I felt then as if my whole life had collapsed .
25 It was to have a big effect on my whole life .
26 As he worked on it , Miro wrote to his friend Pierre Matisse that the painting ‘ will sum up my whole life ’ .
27 In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums .
28 She 's the nicest person I 've ever met in my whole life . ’
29 Then he put the Bible down and said , ‘ Auntie Lou , what lovely gloves , they 're the best gloves I 've ever had in my whole life .
30 ‘ I 've never seen anything so exciting in my whole life , ’ Nick said afterwards .
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