Example sentences of "had the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 2 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 3 | Mike had a cassette that he ran through some speakers — they had the whole equipment set up for me . |
| 4 | Of course the Latin fathers not only had St Paul 's reference to Christ as the propitiation ( with its notions of appeasement ) for sins , 5 they also had the whole history and logic of the Old Testament to draw on . |
| 5 | Inevitably , Nora had the whole story within minutes . |
| 6 | He took me to see a man who had the whole story . |
| 7 | The story goes that when Nicholl was explaining a new tactical formation to Cherednik , Gotsmanov had the whole squad rolling around by interrupting : ‘ What time does the coach leave . ’ |
| 8 | He had the whole day off . |
| 9 | She had the whole day . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
| 11 | And yet he felt he alone had the whole worry of what action to take , and the responsibility for her life as well as his . |
| 12 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |
| 13 | He had the whole thing fixed . |
| 14 | The next day she had the whole thing in perspective again , especially after she did find Louise at lunch and told her as much of the story as she could without mentioning Tom Russell . |
| 15 | But it finally ended up that we had the whole thing Rousay Egilsay and Wyre . |
| 16 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 17 | ‘ Bishop had the whole place monitored . |
| 18 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 19 | Once the exams were over I had the whole summer free in front of me and a host of new friends to pass it with the idea made me extremely happy . |
| 20 | And you had the whole kit . |
| 21 | Oddly enough , had the whole bag disappeared , UA would have ended up paying US$100 . |
| 22 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 23 | They had the whole Fleet Canteen , . |
| 24 | By 19 November he had the whole amount , 30 francs , from Theo , and was writing to say how kind and humane it was of him to let him have the ticket money . |
| 25 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 26 | Had the whole lot done , he said it 'd take about two and half |
| 27 | I had the whole lot . |
| 28 | What I was saying was , just that like , they had all these pieces of furniture in there , it was supposed to be a suite , but my mum , my mum got round and tell you every single piece that was a different colour or the wrong shape , or did n't fit on the pedestal properly , or this and that , and she had the whole lot changed at least three times . |
| 29 | Its lyrics and tunes celebrated the dawning of the ‘ Age of Aquarius ’ and had the whole nation chanting ‘ Hare Krishna ’ for months . |
| 30 | This is erm and this taking in not only the room they had the whole countryside . |