Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
| 2 | I wondered if Harvey had arranged the whole thing , betrayed me to Stok . |
| 3 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 4 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 5 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |
| 6 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 7 | The linear pattern of development was an indication that God had programmed the whole history of life to move in a purposeful direction towards higher levels of intelligence . |
| 8 | In 10 minutes we had spied the whole Countrywatch patch . |
| 9 | No , he had approached the whole business in the best way , certainly . |
| 10 | In the block somebody said that he had seen the whole incident . |
| 11 | He had seen the whole dispute between Canterbury and York from the beginning . |
| 12 | He had seen the whole pattern of crime change in the Oswaldston area in the course of his career : crimes that grew out of hunger and desperation had given way to crimes that grew out of affluence , greed , imitation and boredom . |
| 13 | I did n't know who was in and who was not , but the incident with Russell and the telephone call had made the whole family wary . |
| 14 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 15 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 16 | She had felt the whole silent movement of that field , each straining golden head , instinctively , blindly , passionately turning towards the light . |
| 17 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 18 | Carey had thought the whole performance eerie . |
| 19 | I now realised that there must have been other little gaps and vacancies about the house but , between the tablets and the total absence of any careless talk , I had wiped the whole unfortunate episode right out of my head … |
| 20 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 21 | It could be that the boy had got the whole thing planned , luring Philip out , then having him surrounded . |
| 22 | When I had got the whole lot home I had a think . |
| 23 | When he first saw the Daleks Sydney Newman was furious , claiming that Lambert had betrayed the whole concept of Doctor Who . |
| 24 | Chris Jury , who had masterminded the whole thing and was entirely responsible for what was happening on stage , was taking some musicians through a soundcheck and , like Gina , was completely absorbed in what he was doing . |
| 25 | The previous owners , one an interior designer , had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg 's taste . |
| 26 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 27 | They had finally calmed down , smiled sheepishly — albeit damply — at one another , and Joanna had demanded the whole story , from Isabel 's meeting with Guy right down to their arrival at Ashby Chase . |
| 28 | But whatever had happened to unsettle their dignity , they had spent the whole episode in usual fashion ( along with Blake , Jeff , Adam , Sammy Jo , Fallon , Monica and Sable and the rest ) all scheming away , trying to get each other 's money , destroying each other 's reputation and jumping into bed with those they had no right to . |
| 29 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 30 | He stared at Morris disapprovingly , as if Morris had spent the whole morning in idleness . |