Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 2 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 3 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 4 | She 'd spent the whole evening trying half-heartedly to fight the inevitable attraction she felt for him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
| 7 | I wondered if Harvey had arranged the whole thing , betrayed me to Stok . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 10 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |
| 11 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 12 | The linear pattern of development was an indication that God had programmed the whole history of life to move in a purposeful direction towards higher levels of intelligence . |
| 13 | In 10 minutes we had spied the whole Countrywatch patch . |
| 14 | No , he had approached the whole business in the best way , certainly . |
| 15 | In the block somebody said that he had seen the whole incident . |
| 16 | He had seen the whole dispute between Canterbury and York from the beginning . |
| 17 | He had seen the whole pattern of crime change in the Oswaldston area in the course of his career : crimes that grew out of hunger and desperation had given way to crimes that grew out of affluence , greed , imitation and boredom . |
| 18 | I did n't know who was in and who was not , but the incident with Russell and the telephone call had made the whole family wary . |
| 19 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 20 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 21 | She had felt the whole silent movement of that field , each straining golden head , instinctively , blindly , passionately turning towards the light . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Carey had thought the whole performance eerie . |
| 24 | I now realised that there must have been other little gaps and vacancies about the house but , between the tablets and the total absence of any careless talk , I had wiped the whole unfortunate episode right out of my head … |
| 25 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 26 | It could be that the boy had got the whole thing planned , luring Philip out , then having him surrounded . |
| 27 | When I had got the whole lot home I had a think . |
| 28 | When he first saw the Daleks Sydney Newman was furious , claiming that Lambert had betrayed the whole concept of Doctor Who . |
| 29 | Chris Jury , who had masterminded the whole thing and was entirely responsible for what was happening on stage , was taking some musicians through a soundcheck and , like Gina , was completely absorbed in what he was doing . |
| 30 | The previous owners , one an interior designer , had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg 's taste . |