Example sentences of "[verb] the whole day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 2 | No , but I mean the whole day , I |
| 3 | The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence . |
| 4 | have had the whole day . |
| 5 | At one time , when I was touring in the theatre , I can remember simply having tea for breakfast and then going the whole day with nothing , then a tiny snack in the evening . |
| 6 | She sometimes thought that if they went somewhere hot and beachy as most people did — the Seychelles , the Maldives , the Caribbean — they would spend the whole day swimming or sunbathing . |
| 7 | ‘ You should get yourself a telescope C.W. You could spend the whole day stargazing . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’ |
| 9 | And you can spend the whole day without a bite . |
| 10 | I always remember him being asked why a chap with his responsibility spent his evenings with people like Jill St John and he replied , ‘ Well , if you spent the whole day with Indira Ghandi you do n't want to spend the night with Golda Meir … . ’ |
| 11 | We are indebted all the Gwili members for making it such a wonderful day , and particularly to driver Dave and fireman Roger who , apart from running three trains each way , spent the whole day admitting children of all ages to the footplate , firstly to explain the controls , and later to cook sausages on the fireman 's shovel in traditional style . |
| 12 | Ian said he spent the whole day walking around with a daft grin on his face . |
| 13 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 14 | awful when you hear about yourself , it is horrible and you hear something that someone 's said about you and you think how can they , they just spent the whole day with me or they 've spent , you know exactly your situation like , couple of years of your life with you |
| 15 | He 's just spent the whole day talking to journalists . |
| 16 | Her husband would have spent the whole day cooking for the steady stream of customers in the small , steamy back kitchen below and she felt that he needed a break . |
| 17 | I 've spent the whole day with Piero , I 've read all about him , I 've stared at all the pictures in the book , I 've lived them . |
| 18 | She had spent the whole day , today , hoping it might happen again , but it had n't . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've spent the whole day searching for you . ’ |
| 20 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 21 | Because I have spent the whole day since six o'clock this morning working , and working hard , and this … painted maypole has done nothing all day long and will do nothing tomorrow , except complain about those who do work . |
| 22 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 23 | After spending the whole day besieged by newsmen at her Putney home , she heard the news of his downfall at exactly 5.35pm . |
| 24 | Well , it 's hard to check the whole day , as you can imagine . |
| 25 | The feasting lasted the whole day . |
| 26 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 27 | He had the whole day off . |
| 28 | She had the whole day . |
| 29 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 30 | Opt for a self-drive car only if you want to spend the whole day struggling to get off Hong Kong Island . |