The phrase can't see the wood for the trees is most often used in a reflective situation framed by the word «I didn't, or «we couldn't», rather than «we can't» or «we don't», because it's generally only after we mess something up beyond repair that we realise we were focussing on a small and perhaps unimportant element of a larger whole the entire time. (bookmachine.org)
He know what I am doing the whole entire time.» (sbnation.com)
This is for the whole entire time while I am at work and late nights. (dadsadventure.com)