Example sentences of "[vb past] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivy draped the whole frontage of the building and mingled with the moss of the large dilapidated lawn . |
| 2 | She emptied the whole toybox out . |
| 3 | And Dad put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a tin of tobacco , and Cromb emptied the whole lot into his new pipe with Dad having a look of disbelief on his face , ’ Kerr recounted . |
| 4 | Then he went back to his mother , taking the Kings with him , and there he divided the whole spoil with the hidalgos and his other companions , both the Moorish captives and all the spoil of whatever kind , so that they departed right joyfully , being well pleased with what he had done . |
| 5 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
| 6 | Giving her a look of disgust , he bent forward and flung the whole package on the fire . |
| 7 | She passed the whole thing over to me . |
| 8 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 9 | I stuffed the whole wad back into the envelope and phoned the Brain . |
| 10 | Her interesting talk and demonstration made the whole operation look so easy that members were inspired to go home and make their own . |
| 11 | The ravages of time had caused pieces to break away here and there , so that newer patches of different grey made the whole affair appear shabbier than ever . |
| 12 | If these fears were likely to prolong the discussions over its future , the socio-political context of its development made the whole affair even more complex . |
| 13 | She quickly began to sketch , and at the same time tried to imprint on her mind the combination of colours that made the whole scene so eerily effective . |
| 14 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |
| 15 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 16 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 17 | Two hours of sipping Bell 's and listening to the quacks of the local Scampi and Mateus Rosé crowd made the whole issue seem much simpler . |
| 18 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 19 | What made the whole case so remarkable was his confession to five other murders , his bizarre method of removing the evidence — by dissolving the bodies in acid — and his claims that he indulged in vampirism . |
| 20 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 21 | Greg leaned forward conspiratorially , as if one touch of malice made the whole world kin . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I 'm desperate to regain a Cup place , and that made the whole episode even worse . ’ |
| 23 | By doing that you made the whole crime worthless . |
| 24 | That night , as she waited for the band to strike up her opening music , Rory felt none of the usual tingle of anticipation which made the whole business of singing so pleasurable . |
| 25 | Those best placed to influence government policy were also most dependent on state patronage to further their military and civil careers , while the police and tax functions delegated to serf-owners made the whole class in one sense a part of the machinery of government . |
| 26 | It was decided to stop using them because the stress of the three hundred and sixty-degree swing made the whole spire shake . |
| 27 | He snorted through his nose instead of laughing , and emitted a curious whistling sound , reminding her of his snoring at night , which made the whole room vibrate and set ornaments rattling . |
| 28 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 29 | When we could n't revive it , it made the whole thing worse for them . |
| 30 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |