Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 2 | ‘ So you pushed her out of the car and gave the whole game away ? ’ |
| 3 | And he said nothing and she did nothing until Geoffroy , the tough son , took exception to his brother Fromont taking refuge in a monastery , and when he would n't come out , he piled up brushwood and burned the whole thing down , monks and Fromont and all . |
| 4 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 5 | When he assumed the role of the accountant and conducted the whole conversation with someone at the other end who was trying to make an appointment , he was brilliant . ’ |
| 6 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 7 | She had her nervous breakdown and relived the whole experience , so to her Aberfan lasted actually happened two years ago . |
| 8 | But I am more disturbed by the sharp , diving whine of a mosquito , which produces an anticipatory tension by its frequency alone , just like the moment when the dentist turned on his drill and swung the whole clumsy contraption over my youthful , gaping mouth . |
| 9 | He sat upright on the sofa and watched the whole film . |
| 10 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 11 | ‘ Government ’ , Denys Finch Hatton wrote to his friend Kermit Roosevelt , ' … panicked and sent for Delamere who seems to have gone down there with a boy and a cook and settled the whole thing . ’ |
| 12 | He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa . |
| 13 | Mr Close accused the ‘ hear no evil , see no evil ’ brigade of guilt through silence and urged the whole community to stand united and to reject terrorism from whatever quarter it came . |
| 14 | In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor . |
| 15 | In the Second Test we struggled for possession and spent the whole match backpedalling ’ . |
| 16 | He was charmed by the tune and took the whole box from her while he listened ; his face reflected an almost childlike absorption . |
| 17 | Despite the scepticism which accompanied the launch of Pump technology and surrounded the whole concept of custom fit , it now has a strong band of converts and has even spawned a series of copycat technology among competitors . |