Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 2 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 3 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 4 | And at the same moment she had the shattering thought that perhaps she had imagined the whole thing . |
| 5 | She had felt the whole silent movement of that field , each straining golden head , instinctively , blindly , passionately turning towards the light . |
| 6 | She had spent the whole day , today , hoping it might happen again , but it had n't . |
| 7 | But she had spent the whole long night playing at make-believe , so surely she could manage to play the game a while longer . |
| 8 | Two years ago , she had brought the whole thing to a halt by leaving Hong Kong and moving here , to London , to try to find some peace of mind . |
| 9 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 10 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |