Example sentences of "[vb pp] the whole thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if Harvey had arranged the whole thing , betrayed me to Stok . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | of of this secrecy that 's apparently surrounded the whole thing . |
| 5 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 6 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 7 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 8 | Mr Corman has shot the whole thing in colour and in a cinema-verité style that makes it resemble a documentary . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | Assuming she had n't made the whole thing up . |
| 11 | He must have made the whole thing up from start to finish . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 14 | She has seen the whole thing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cop has watched the whole thing . |
| 17 | It could be that the boy had got the whole thing planned , luring Philip out , then having him surrounded . |
| 18 | And to talk of killing your little girls shows you 've got the whole thing horribly out of perspective . |
| 19 | Not particularly but I understand that er it is , you now have the whole of China which small areas erm relatively small areas , you 've now got the whole thing , I mean if you start initiating very radical reforms , as you say you do n't have the personnel or the resources to erm to prevent a , you know , a big change disruption . |
| 20 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 21 | It 'll be be much more straightforward when they 've got the whole thing on the computer but at the moment it 's a transitional phase . |
| 22 | He could have told the whole thing against himself as a joke . |
| 23 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 26 | The wretched woman had well-meaningly reduced the whole thing to the level of bar-room farce . |
| 27 | She had been appalled by Churchill 's decision to shoot down German aircraft — marked with the red cross — picking up ditched fliers in the Channel , and she argued passionately that the saturation bombing of Britain 's cities — bombing that Hitler had promised would never happen — had been forced on him by Churchill 's repeated refusal to stop the air-raids on Berlin that had set the whole thing off . |
| 28 | ‘ Any one person could have brought the whole thing to an end on the spot . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , she knew , but she wanted things hushed up , so when Mam said she was marrying Henry she did n't protest over much , because Mam was in such a state then she would have brought the whole thing to light . |
| 30 | Two years ago , she had brought the whole thing to a halt by leaving Hong Kong and moving here , to London , to try to find some peace of mind . |