Example sentences of "took the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the help of Fred ( later Sir Frederick ) White , Bowen managed to keep the project out of the clutches of the Australian National University ( at one stage he nearly took the whole setup to the United States ) , and he used friends in high places to raise large sums of money from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations . |
| 2 | Dad took Peter to work today said I thought he was gon na to John when I came home , he took the whole front of |
| 3 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 4 | He was charmed by the tune and took the whole box from her while he listened ; his face reflected an almost childlike absorption . |
| 5 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 6 | David 's long fingers plucked carefully at two of the lines , swung them over the outlying strings and took the whole pattern back from her hands to form a new one within his . |
| 7 | Yes and we took the whole thing down to the kitchen for the upstairs rooms were just going like this . |