Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 2 | And Dad put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a tin of tobacco , and Cromb emptied the whole lot into his new pipe with Dad having a look of disbelief on his face , ’ Kerr recounted . |
| 3 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 4 | Her interesting talk and demonstration made the whole operation look so easy that members were inspired to go home and make their own . |
| 5 | Finally I make a 70 per cent reduction copy of my dick , because the highland reduction setting used the whole area of the glass that my dick could reach , and so I captured something vaguely obscene looking , even if the total overall scale was reduced . |
| 6 | The ensuing exchange over the months turned the whole cast of Balzac 's Comédie Humaine into Katherine 's familiars and gave her an awareness of greed and ambition , love and betrayal far beyond her years . |
| 7 | bought one of those stinky old er pine tree things and Paulie ripped the whole wrapper off it |
| 8 | The tragedy touched the whole community . |
| 9 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 10 | The Bush Administration sent the whole issue off to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in December last year . |
| 11 | The entry of Alain Prost into the McLaren equation galvanized the whole team , and Niki as well . |
| 12 | Their success gave them a power that everyone wanted to share ; their commercial momentum carried the whole pop world along . |
| 13 | And did you know that Page Up and Down shifted the whole document up and down on the screen ? |
| 14 | A sharp gust of wind set the whole tree in motion and he dung on desperately like a sailor in the rigging , remembering Dalziel 's jocular injunction to ‘ watch himself ’ . |
| 15 | Sir Gregory had a painful discussion with his wife over how they should react to Pascoe 's snub , in which Lady Roscarrock gave vent to her outrage saying that they had every right to keep both Tristram and Jennifer in custody indefinitely ; but Sir Gregory wanted the whole business settled and finished with , so after a lengthy wrangle he swallowed the family pride and went over to Hill House . |
| 16 | Greg leaned forward conspiratorially , as if one touch of malice made the whole world kin . |
| 17 | Ivy draped the whole frontage of the building and mingled with the moss of the large dilapidated lawn . |
| 18 | ‘ The boy drove the whole way to Dublin on his half day to bring you home and then drove straight back and said you had to see another doctor . |
| 19 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 20 | Fine , almost invisible lines covered the whole surface , as if the sphere were netted by the frailest of spiders ' webs . |
| 21 | The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable . |
| 22 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 23 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 24 | Sensuality , fun and an ample dose of raunchy dance brought the whole programme alive . |
| 25 | He says Gore treated the whole thing like a game of chess . |
| 26 | Robert Beard from Manchester South Pest Control , achieved an incredible time and beat everyone else in 31.36 seconds , Jonathon Hume from Birmingham South won the whole event . |
| 27 | Darwin converted the whole world to evolutionism — but this was possible only because the general idea of evolution could be exploited in so many different ways . |
| 28 | Happily these two roles are crucial ones , and the powerful delineation of this central rivalry gave the whole performance its backbone . |
| 29 | The feasting lasted the whole day . |
| 30 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |