Example sentences of "had a whole " in BNC.

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1 My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’
2 We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart .
3 Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series .
4 Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes .
5 He was about to tell the Headmaster the Bookman had a whole box of questions in his home but stopped himself in time .
6 After going to church I had a whole Sunday on Tiree , Snoopy-like with the moped .
7 They were still talking when I continued on my way back to my roomette where I sat in comfortable privacy for a while reading the timetable and also reflecting that although I still had no answers to the old questions , I now had a whole crop of new ones , the most urgent being whether or not Filmer had already known the Youngs were friends of Ezra Gideon .
8 I had a whole lotta fun playing just about every megalithic riff I could remember and the Tribute came up smiling every time .
9 ‘ When I came to Ampeg I had a whole book full of design ideas — everything drawn out and ready to go — which I presented them with , and the amps that you 're seeing right now are almost exactly what was in that book .
10 At least they had a whole house , with three bedrooms .
11 The Peleus had been sunk at 7.30 p.m. ; Eck therefore had a whole night 's steaming to put himself a hundred miles from the sinking before submerging at dawn .
12 What the hell , people in Africa were gasping for a beer , and he had a whole case stashed here .
13 One form had a whole line of lateral fins ; the pectoral fins of another were encased in tube-like bones and looked like probes or props .
14 It is of course true that each of the three elements in the circumstance as described was itself an effect of something else , and , further , had a whole causal history .
15 It was n't often that he had a whole day out on the moor .
16 Indeed we had a whole term of the Bilingual Skills Course in Bedford without an Urdu tutor at all — the students preferred to stay and act as their own tutors until one was found — and proved to be an excellent self-help language group .
17 As the spider , I had a whole world in my hands .
18 N David David Stanley had a whole lot of pictures and there 's an awful lot of pictures in it belonging to my Granddad and Grandma .
19 This one had a whole lot of switches on so it can be altered from outside without going inside .
20 Postcards , zany and ridiculously silly , had been more his style — she had a whole collection of them stashed away somewhere .
21 When Charles sat in judgement , he had a whole entourage of such counts beside him .
22 ‘ Well , I had a whole day of it — ’
23 Dagbladet had a whole page on the Ipswich-Leeds match yesterday — with header ‘ Leeds robbed for a penalty ’ saying that after this draw things look set for Scum .
24 She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking .
25 The second which reached number two in Tokyo , between Michael Jackson and Madonna had a whole sequence devoted to Liverpool .
26 and we had a whole month at sea without seeing land
27 He said he was going delivering , he had a whole pile of stuff to deliver .
28 But but these you know , you had your telephone number and you know , just had a whole statement of everything about you .
29 They had a whole full .
30 going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades
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