Example sentences of "go the [adj] hog " in BNC.
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| 1 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 2 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
| 3 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |
| 4 | Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages . |
| 5 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
| 6 | The Siemens display goes the whole hog . |
| 7 | I would advise the interested enthusiast to purchase the smaller set that includes the skew chisel C17 , and try those before going the whole hog . |
| 8 | Going the whole hog . ’ |
| 9 | Currently the band have a repertoire of about 20 Hendrix tunes , with Slim occasionally going the whole hog playing guitar behind his head and often performing a full Woodstock style Star Spangled Banner , much to the delight of the crowd . |
| 10 | There would be little to be lost from going the whole hog . ’ |
| 11 | Or , if you really insist on going the whole hog in German cuisine ( and believe me , their culinary expertise with swine is fabled ) try Zum Schiffchen , a restaurant with absolutely no understanding of nouvelle disciplines . |
| 12 | Rather , ‘ going the whole hog means a general rise in wages , guaranteed employment , an earlier retirement age , reduction in working hours without loss of pay , and defence and extension of such trade union rights in the factory ’ . |
| 13 | Two bread and butter , eh , your going the whole hog today . |
| 14 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
| 15 | He 's gone the whole hog that guy hanging down to his |
| 16 | And so I er never went the whole hog that way with thumping the British , British and best and so on . |
| 17 | Food : The test of a true boar : British gourmets could soon go the whole hog , writes Henrietta Green |
| 18 | Rather than make changes to aerodynamic efficiency to reduce speeds , why not go the whole hog and kill two birds with one stone ? |
| 19 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 20 | But it was felt that if we were to incorporate everything you wanted , why not go the whole hog and re-launch the mag ? |
| 21 | If I were you I 'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium . |
| 22 | Let's go the whole hog . |
| 23 | Why not go the whole hog and book yourself into a health farm for a really relaxing break . |
| 24 | When I fly to California for my final rethink , maybe I 'll go the whole hog and get my blood fixed too . |
| 25 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 26 | And when you 've claimed that much land , why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well . |
| 27 | Then you go the whole hog , have whatever else is available , then stop for a fish-and-chip take-away on the way home . |
| 28 | So go the whole hog . |
| 29 | Many ailments , especially viral ones such as Fish Pox , can make themselves apparent a long time after purchase : in other words , unless you go the whole hog , like the very top Koi-keepers , quarantine is no guarantee that all will be well . |
| 30 | But some of the new philosophers and freethinkers — Voltaire ( 1694–1778 ) , for example — go the whole hog and , particularly in Catholic France , where anticlericalism spurs it on , atheism takes root . |