Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 2 | which is useful when they may have to wait a whole year for payment for their wheat harvest , or for the sale of fat cattle . |
| 3 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 4 | We would have to see a whole change of pattern and thinking for all clubs and all players in April . |
| 5 | ‘ I think a real friend is someone you do n't have to see the whole time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 'd been told which room would be used for the meeting so we did n't have to search the whole building . |
| 8 | Scraps of sedge and meadow rue still cling to its margins , the last remnants of a marsh which must once have inundated the whole valley floor . |
| 9 | She really should have treated the whole tank for white spot , not isolated her fish ( see this month 's article on Koi diseases ) , and was lucky no to get a recurrence . |
| 10 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 11 | The minor one is that with the wing and two very heavy jet engines gone we have all that less to lift although I 'm certain we could have lifted the whole lot without trouble . |
| 12 | In fact , if it had n't been an important point of principle not to let the damn impertinent man get away with his nauseating behaviour , she 'd have let the whole thing drop . |
| 13 | He 'd have to hide the whole arrangement , wastebin and all . |
| 14 | You might have to write the whole programme again to do that . |
| 15 | The two human parcels screwed up on the floor could have fared a whole lot worse . |
| 16 | While it is undoubtedly true that there are advantageous settlements negotiated at the door of the Court , the actual cost to the defender in settling at that stage is significant insofar as in the majority of cases it is the defender who will have to meet the whole cost of preparation for the Proof by both parties , including attendance of witnesses , Counsel 's fees and so forth . |
| 17 | As soon as you shall have considered the whole subject the First Commissioner will be glad to receive from you probationary sketches of the Plans and Design generally , and he will then give you further instructions with reference to the future preparation of detailed plans , specifications and estimates . |
| 18 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 19 | In its former glory it must have dominated the whole dale below from Richmond to Hawes . |
| 20 | And that delay meant Mrs Fraser had arrived in the Republic of Ireland , when prompt action could have prevented the whole mess . |
| 21 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 22 | A figure carrying a hooded lantern moved among the barrels , laying the powder train that on the morrow , once it was fired , would send king , princes , bishops , judges , lords and commons to their reckoning in one gigantic blast intended to ‘ have ruined the whole estate and kingdom of England . |
| 23 | That acquisition could have scuppered the whole effort , given AT&T 's long-standing efforts to establish its own Tuxedo as the de-facto standard for Unix TP . |
| 24 | But once it was understood that Europeans might hope to reach the fabled East by travelling West , then explorers could reasonably hope that before very long they would have mapped the whole surface of the globe . |
| 25 | He must have made the whole thing up from start to finish . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I 'd have to comb the whole town for you , ’ he began jovially , coming forward . |
| 27 | He could have told the whole thing against himself as a joke . |
| 28 | ‘ I shall have to discuss the whole matter with the rest of the family . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah I think you 'll just have to wipe the whole thing out and do it again . |
| 30 | But , at Seattle women 's art was so prolific that you would have needed a whole month to do the work justice . |