Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the whole " in BNC.
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1 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
2 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
3 | Ooh , various methods , er at the moment , we , there 's just solely six of us throughout the whole country , that er work on appeals , er we raise money through various means er from flag days in the street to major fund raising efforts , er and events that we organise er round the country . |
4 | Her case had been that the husband had deliberately refrained from discussing the matter of the charge with her during the whole weekend . |
5 | On the roof beam , stretching above him across the whole width of the room , was carved and gilded the minatory text , ‘ God 's eye seeth all ’ . |
6 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
7 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
8 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
9 | The problem which arises from this is that we are never given any inkling of the totality of a king 's estates , and there is a particular difficulty in trying to construct a picture of crown land by listing all references to it from the whole Merovingian period ; if kings rewarded their followers by conferring estates on them , even though the grant might not be hereditary , the pool of land must have changed constantly . |