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Example sentences of "[to-vb] the whole thing " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there .
2	Erm I , I 'd like to see what Peter would like to see actually , I think we ought to see the whole thing done in one fell swoop .
3	They seemed to enjoy the whole thing a hundred times more than your average blasé concert-goer . ’
4	Sir Thomas Gray of Heton said that the peace was not in accordance with the king 's will and that the queen and Mortimer had used the opportunity of the king 's minority to arrange the whole thing .
5	‘ It was my responsibility as a project to establish the whole thing , ’ he said proudly , adding that his work at Newcastle called for a very broad range of expertise .
6	More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled .
7	It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’
8	Instead , the effect is to prettify the whole thing , something for which designer William Dudley needs no second invitation .
9	However , when the garment was completed I did n't like it and took the decision to unpick the whole thing .
10	It seemed to be asking a lot of Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) to create the whole thing .
11	‘ If you try to sell the whole thing to the private sector , they wo n't take it .
12	This is where you get to wrap the whole thing up . ’
13	The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was
14	Yeah I think you 'll just have to wipe the whole thing out and do it again .
15	I could n't believe the bookies were giving 9/1 for Leeds to win the whole thing on Sat. morning .
16	More and more people are choosing one company to handle the whole thing for them .
17	It has sixty four pages with one hundred and ninety thousand words They spent two days working around the clock typing it into a computer , now their master disc is being used by a Sunday newspaper to publish the whole thing this weekend .
18	‘ Look — I do n't want to blight the whole thing before we start , but — suppose we fail ?
19	Once the final details made of icing sugar are stuck in in place with water … it 's time to put the whole thing together .
20	Stay with the man , watching him , waiting hour after hour , until eventually the man has to give in and say something to draw the whole thing to a close .
21	I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination .
22	It is better to learn a small section thoroughly than to surface-read it and then have to go back to do the whole thing again .
23	Part one featuring the first four days of the route is on page 18 and we 'll be publishing parts two and three in our August and September issues , so September might be a good time to do the whole thing — if you can wait that long .
24	but you ca n't you ca n't dip into modules of that can you do n't you have to do the whole thing ?
25	I could n't bear to start the whole thing all over again .
26	Would they shake hands and agree to forget the whole thing were he to do so ?
27	‘ To keep the whole thing going .
28	‘ To keep the whole thing in the right perspective , you have to remember that it does n't necessarily matter what a manager decides , the service that the resident receives is actually given by the care assistant .
29	Binton 's vicar , the Rev Peter Williams , said last night : ‘ I understand his family want to keep the whole thing private .
30	So you want me to help you to produce a plan to solve the whole thing in the next five or six hours .