Example sentences of "[vb -s] the whole thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | While frank HM opener ‘ Swivelhead ’ tears the teeth out your gaping mouth , ‘ Candy Deceit ’ slows the whole thing down to ‘ Drowners ’ speed , daring confetti to rain down on us as if to finalise the effect . |
| 2 | When of course you can see he wants the whole thing hushed up . |
| 3 | He uses the metaphor of the commercial viability of two watchmakers , one of whom puts watches together out of finished sub-assemblies which can not fall apart , and another who assembles each watch from its basic parts and risks the whole thing falling to pieces if dropped . |
| 4 | Walking round the tower , one sees the whole thing from every angle . |
| 5 | When sequences are similar the team will indicate their preferences so a rough cut can be made by the editor , who joins all the desired sequences together and cuts the whole thing to the exact time . |
| 6 | Frodo does not know he is going to Mordor yet , and Pippin shrugs the whole thing off . |
| 7 | Seems the whole thing is gone , what is God gon na do ? |
| 8 | He removes the lid and examines the whole thing closely . |
| 9 | if people ca n't recognise possessive pronoun in that the it 's is short for it is , er , somebody ought to check it because it , it lets the whole thing down . |
| 10 | When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing . |
| 11 | ‘ All right : firstly , she survives Mrs Ramsay and paints a picture which catches the whole thing . |
| 12 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 13 | She does the whole thing by feel … listening to the kiln . ’ |
| 14 | Okay , you can use a P S P as an endowment for mortgage purposes , and it works virtually the same if you 're arranging a mortgage now for a new client , for a new property , the chance are you want the Mortgage Master Policy , because that does the whole thing for you , okay , that 's what its ideal purpose is . |
| 15 | One unexpected bonus ( for those with contemporary level perfect pitch ) , is the fact that this is the original E flat version of the Magnificat , which means that those used to hearing the D major revision can rest comfortably as the ‘ authentic ’ pitch adjustment brings the whole thing down roughly a semi-tone anyway ! |
| 16 | A voltage across opposite sides of the sausage makes the whole thing into a huge Geiger-counter . |
| 17 | He makes the whole thing much easier . |
| 18 | ‘ The client 's offering 115 American dollars a day for the skipper , which makes the whole thing worth over ten thousand bucks to you . |
| 19 | The fact that they are performing to a camera instead of just for the teacher or the rest of the class makes the whole thing less artificial . |
| 20 | Chairman it makes the whole thing far simpler I think because there is n't really no disagreement about this whatsoever . |
| 21 | Often , the same bit of flimsy facetiousness gets disgorged with a frequency that suggests the whole thing is a product of some mechanically chortling Xerox machine . |
| 22 | Who runs the whole thing ? ’ |
| 23 | Normally this is only a minor irritation ( unless the controller suffers from migraine ) , and a few seconds later another transmission sorts the whole thing out . |