Example sentences of "take the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She takes the whole subject very seriously and intends to become very involved in Green issues at all kinds of levels in future . |
| 2 | When the child has grown beyond babyhood , the father takes charge of the boy 's education , while the mother takes the whole responsibility of the girl 's education and a part of the boy 's education . |
| 3 | The point , though , which takes the whole affair into the realms of the ludicrous is that other members of the England party , such as Boycott and Bairstow , had also played and coached in South Africa but no objection was made to them . |
| 4 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 5 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 6 | Where Sly went for an inward-looking drum-numbed indifference ( made bearable , glamorous even , by a wonderfully impenetrable jungle funk ) , Gaye wrought a song cycle that takes the whole world through doubt , disillusion , destruction and eventual redemption through the power of love and community . |
| 7 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 8 | If you do n't come back I 'll take the whole bottle . ’ |
| 9 | Asked whether the former LAS chief executive , John Wilby , who resigned after London was left without emergency cover , should take the whole blame , Mr Harris , 64 , said : ‘ He was the chief executive at the time . |
| 10 | Edgar Wallace , a great fan of this troupe , took a fancy to one Girl in particular and would take the whole team to the races in order to meet her . |
| 11 | nine , ten , why do n't you just take the whole bank |
| 12 | ‘ You might as well take the whole lot , the orange and all , ’ said Philip . |
| 13 | ‘ These days they build breaks into them so that if they do knock one over by mistake , it does n't take the whole lot with it . ’ |
| 14 | " I could take the whole lot . " |
| 15 | So if we could collect it all up together and when we are going down we could take the whole lot down out of the way . |
| 16 | If it 's just left like that I shall just take the whole lot and dump it in the dustbin ! |
| 17 | Well let's take the whole lot out . |
| 18 | And from here it was but a step to suggesting that women did not take the whole thing seriously as a profession . |
| 19 | She could n't say to him , if once I let you in you 'll take the whole thing over — and me as well . |
| 20 | He 'll take the whole thing apart ! |
| 21 | Imagine how lovely it would be — you could take the whole family and make a day of it . |
| 22 | I 've just put my house on the market in York I 've chosen the if erm that 's that 's you know the whole taking the whole scene into consideration , but if I was in Bournemouth for instance and buying a house in York and I said I phone three or four estates agents and said , Look please send me information through the post . |
| 23 | So all in all , since most of the passage is told from Pemberton 's point of view , we are led in the absence of contrary evidence into taking the whole passage in that light . |
| 24 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 25 | Make sure that the baby 's body is facing the breast and that he or she is taking the whole nipple to fill its mouth . |
| 26 | The head is balanced in such a way that , when the neck muscles are released , the head goes slightly forward , taking the whole body into movement . |
| 27 | Taking the whole period 1978–89 ( Table 5.3 ) , manufacturing employment was responsible for the overall decline of male employment . |
| 28 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 29 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 30 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |