Example sentences of "[vb pp] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | When you have completed the whole exercise , scrutinise it , paying particular attention to your adjectives . |
3 | Wait until you have completed the whole questionnaire before you read our analysis of your wild personality . |
4 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
5 | I wondered if Harvey had arranged the whole thing , betrayed me to Stok . |
6 | That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’ |
7 | Given the whole family of crustaceans , it was possible to imagine an ideal or typical crustacean of which all the existing forms were more or less close realizations . |
8 | ‘ Malcolm Marshall coming back has given the whole place and all the players such a lift . ’ |
9 | A club spokesman said : ‘ It was a win over an in-form side that has given the whole team great hope and we will go to Wasps with nothing to lose . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | A spokesman said that the French government regarded the whole issue as closed . |
12 | The Labour government , however , still regarded the whole trend with almost unmitigated hostility , and showed its distaste by sending only a low-grade delegation to the study commission . |
13 | Often alone , but on other occasions accompanied by his daughter Jane , Green really regarded the whole area as his home . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | We started off with that one squared the whole lot squared |
16 | Scraps of sedge and meadow rue still cling to its margins , the last remnants of a marsh which must once have inundated the whole valley floor . |
17 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
18 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
19 | SERAFIN : Do n't you begin to feel you have heard the whole debate before ? |
20 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
21 | She really should have treated the whole tank for white spot , not isolated her fish ( see this month 's article on Koi diseases ) , and was lucky no to get a recurrence . |
22 | ‘ She 's contaminated the whole house ! |
23 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
24 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
25 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
26 | What 's highlighted the whole issue of safe sex is , of course , the advent of acquired immunity deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) . |
27 | The web of confusion that has surrounded the whole Nimslo venture is now so tangled that not even Nimslo can say exactly how much investment the company has attracted . |
28 | of of this secrecy that 's apparently surrounded the whole thing . |
29 | The minor one is that with the wing and two very heavy jet engines gone we have all that less to lift although I 'm certain we could have lifted the whole lot without trouble . |
30 | No , he had approached the whole business in the best way , certainly . |