Example sentences of "go the [adj] hog and " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 2 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |
| 3 | Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages . |
| 4 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
| 5 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
| 6 | Rather than make changes to aerodynamic efficiency to reduce speeds , why not go the whole hog and kill two birds with one stone ? |
| 7 | But it was felt that if we were to incorporate everything you wanted , why not go the whole hog and re-launch the mag ? |
| 8 | If I were you I 'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium . |
| 9 | Why not go the whole hog and book yourself into a health farm for a really relaxing break . |
| 10 | When I fly to California for my final rethink , maybe I 'll go the whole hog and get my blood fixed too . |
| 11 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 12 | And when you 've claimed that much land , why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well . |
| 13 | But some of the new philosophers and freethinkers — Voltaire ( 1694–1778 ) , for example — go the whole hog and , particularly in Catholic France , where anticlericalism spurs it on , atheism takes root . |
| 14 | Squeezed into an Islington drinking hole prior to an onstage engagement , Sam sips tentatively at a half of lager while the siblings go the whole hog and guzzle pints of water . |
| 15 | You could hire taxis , or go the whole hog and hire a chauffeur-driven car for the day . |