Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take long for Brown Owl to find out the whole story . |
| 2 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 3 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 4 | A sudden explosion of brightness lit up the whole sky . |
| 5 | It is a good idea to fit servicing valves before all taps so that they can be rewashered without the need to drain down the whole pipe ( and , possibly , the whole cistern ) . |
| 6 | This insight opened up the whole world of aromatic organic chemistry . |
| 7 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
| 8 | The heater at the bottom is wired so that it will operate on the cheaper tariff at night to heat up the whole cylinder ; the heater at the top can be used during the day ( on full-rate tariff ) for ‘ topping up ’ when necessary |
| 9 | Unlike Lukács ' insignificant event from which the universal is precariously drawn out through the narrative , Sartre 's singularity works synecdochally in a conventional antinomy with the universal , the relation between the two structured according to the familiar nineteenth-century model of organic growth or process in which each singular event makes up the whole while , as he puts it , ‘ the whole is entirely present in the part as its present meaning and as its destiny ’ . |
| 10 | He is referring to France as this is where the poem is set as it combines the rest of the world in with this one man , the sun being the common factor , France , I think , represent the rest of the world and since it is a funny thought this single object waking up the whole population , Owen uses the words ‘ even in ’ . |
| 11 | Farber sums up the whole process : |
| 12 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
| 13 | Its origins are disguised by its huge cob , and only in the last few years has genetic analysis teased out the whole truth about its humble cereal ancestry . |
| 14 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 15 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 16 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |
| 17 | Then the KGB decided it was time to roll up the whole operation . ’ |