Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 2 | If the family allegiance to a particular sect changed then the whole local membership might follow the same path . |
| 3 | Chesarynth remembered her sister 's stories of the lowest levels at Nutristem where subliminals ate away the whole shift from your mind . |
| 4 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 5 | This insight opened up the whole world of aromatic organic chemistry . |
| 6 | Their actual effect was pretty disastrous ; they screwed up the whole culture , and they opened up the island to being overrun by pineapple and sugar plantations . |
| 7 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 8 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 9 | She claims her alleged victim was confused and made up the whole story . |
| 10 | Like , I 'll tell you , see , last Christmas we spent practically the whole night going to family rows . |
| 11 | When he checked the effects of the street lights , Dr Rydell found that , averaged out the whole year , there were about five times as many bats in the villages with street lights as in the dark areas of countryside and the one unlit village . |
| 12 | Between them , they tumbled out the whole story , the peacocks , the stone lions , Evelyn 's mum , Mrs Grace , the notice going up about Hambury — everything . |
| 13 | It probably slowed down the whole process a bit , but it made it all much safer . ’ |
| 14 | And er it was lovely and we were enjoying it until I pulled out the whole chicken 's head . |
| 15 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
| 16 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 17 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |
| 18 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 19 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 20 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 21 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 22 | Directly he did so the whole village , shops , inns , stalls , and people , and the river of wine , all vanished away ; nothing remained but the waterfall dashing over its crag . |
| 23 | The sky thundered , followed quickly by a crack of lightning that lit up the whole sky . |
| 24 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 25 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 26 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 27 | For Wyntoun broadened out the whole context of Scottish history , invoking the model of the fourth-century World Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea in order to set it , as John MacQueen has written , ‘ firmly within the framework of the Christian world-picture , and by so doing to demonstrate the links joining the Scottish monarchy and people to the overall providential scheme ’ . |
| 28 | At times the railway altered almost the whole aspect of a town , or at least of distant views of it . |
| 29 | She sat with Nellie and Brigid Drennan , Tommy 's wife , at the corner table and never said much the whole night . |
| 30 | Pat Devine , secretary of the NUWM , summed up the whole Communist objection to ILP concept of the United Front as meaning a formal alliance between groups . |