Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 2 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 3 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 4 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 5 | She rolled to her feet and crawled out to find almost the whole population of Riverbank gathered outside . |
| 6 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 7 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 8 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 9 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 10 | It is the first layer to be secreted in the cycle of cuticle formation , arising on top of the epidermal microvilli as small plaques which subsequently fuse to cover virtually the whole body . |
| 11 | A quick-scan function is also built in , adjustable to cover either the whole VHF air band or stored frequencies only . |
| 12 | This last reflection — it was Nova Scotia , he was pretty sure — seemed to tidy up the whole matter , which his mind now presented as a uniform interlocking structure , with working parts . |
| 13 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 14 | Gentleman sees the working papers he will discover that no hospital will be able to ask for trust status unless it agrees to carry out the whole range of services that must be undertaken in that area . |
| 15 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 16 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 17 | Perhaps the only answer is to send up the whole pantomime . |
| 18 | The test of " a right to stay " on the land is in both cases , " Did that person possess the land in fact , while intending to use the land and to keep out the whole world ? " |
| 19 | Leave some of the batter off the fish as well ; • If you are eating a pizza or pie do not feel duty-bound to finish off the whole thing . |
| 20 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |
| 21 | We are beginning to see how the whole thing fits together and again , I think , we are beginning to see a somewhat " catastrophic " picture . |
| 22 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 23 | His interventions were resented by many , and when he declared : ‘ Do n't let us be forced to face alone the whole military power of England and the Allies . |
| 24 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 25 | But she had an idea , from Cara 's remark about sending a card home , that her sister fully expected her to stay away the whole fortnight as planned . |
| 26 | Then the KGB decided it was time to roll up the whole operation . ’ |
| 27 | The heater at the bottom is wired so that it will operate on the cheaper tariff at night to heat up the whole cylinder ; the heater at the top can be used during the day ( on full-rate tariff ) for ‘ topping up ’ when necessary |
| 28 | Betelgeux is a vast red supergiant , large enough to swallow up the whole orbit of the Earth round the Sun , while the pure white Rigel is a cosmic searchlight with 60000 times the Sun 's luminosity . |
| 29 | ‘ With the power of the TARDIS , this brain soup character will be able to screw up the whole universe . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Cockfield , who expect to have virtually the whole village behind them , add recent signings Nigel Sams and Stephen Barker to the squad , but there will be late fitness tests for midfielder Mark Roughley and Kevin Pierce . |