Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In its former glory it must have dominated the whole dale below from Richmond to Hawes . |
| 9 | And that delay meant Mrs Fraser had arrived in the Republic of Ireland , when prompt action could have prevented the whole mess . |
| 10 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He must have made the whole thing up from start to finish . |
| 15 | He could have told the whole thing against himself as a joke . |
| 16 | I 've wiped this I 'll have washed the whole floor . |
| 17 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
| 18 | I always knew I was adopted , so why could n't I have had the whole truth ? |
| 19 | Merrill could have sold the whole issue several times over in the US , but Waste Management International intends to acquire British companies , funded by future share issues , and needs to create a shareholder base in Britain to facilitate this . |
| 20 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 21 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 22 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Any one person could have brought the whole thing to an end on the spot . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , she knew , but she wanted things hushed up , so when Mam said she was marrying Henry she did n't protest over much , because Mam was in such a state then she would have brought the whole thing to light . |
| 25 | Knowing Esther , she would have executed the whole devious scheme with the utmost care . |
| 26 | This proposal would have involved a different , immensely complicated , and , for suspects , terrifying new caution which could easily fatally have undermined the whole rule . |
| 27 | Had Red Reg turned up here , one felt certain they would have set the whole menagerie on him . |
| 28 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , held a key role during Britain 's presidency of the EC and could have set the whole tone of the West 's approach to the problem . |
| 29 | Her husband would have spent the whole day cooking for the steady stream of customers in the small , steamy back kitchen below and she felt that he needed a break . |
| 30 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |