Example sentences of "spend the whole time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me , too , come to that — if you do n't come , he 'll spend the whole time fretting about the book . ’ |
| 2 | Do not spend the whole time talking about yourself , your job and your life . |
| 3 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 4 | Only had one sitting , spent the whole time fending the old bugger off . |
| 5 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 6 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 7 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 8 | Poor Martinho , almost his portly self again , had spent the whole time with at least one gun in his back . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've spent the whole time trying to convince myself it could never work between us , ’ he went on , as though she had n't spoken . |
| 10 | If you are involved with local politics , meeting people is going to be part of your task — unless you are ready to spend the whole time in a backroom stuffing envelopes . |
| 11 | ‘ You spend the whole time itching and scratching , and the wounds become infected . |
| 12 | ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’ |