Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fine , almost invisible lines covered the whole surface , as if the sphere were netted by the frailest of spiders ' webs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The programmes of those early years explored the whole range of possibilities offered by civil nuclear power and paved the way for the growth of a domestic industry capable of mastering the entire fuel cycle from the mine through enrichment to reprocessing . |
| 5 | The extent of the firing of buildings was such that observers thought the whole city was ablaze . |
| 6 | In order to focus the attention on the official opening of Norseman Park , a unique set of events took place at Red Lake over the weekend of July 25/26/ Organisers involved the whole township in myriad different functions , ranging from a fly-in pancake breakfast , Norseman loading competitions ( using the fuselage hulk of CF–GBI ) , float pumping contests , pilots discussions and lectures , to a street fair , in which the whole of the main street in Red Lake was closed to traffic , marquees were erected , street bands played , food and drink was consumed and a carnival atmosphere was enjoyed by all . |
| 7 | The actions told the whole story . |
| 8 | Melossi discusses the ‘ roaring twenties ’ and notes that ‘ an attitude of leniency , indulgence and experimentation with newer methods and reforms permeated the whole society ’ . |
| 9 | The French and Germans watched the whole affair with much amusement . |
| 10 | The apple trees covered the whole orchard and were very close together , most of their branches touching each other . |
| 11 | And remembering Johnny 's face when he had talked of Dusty Miller , she knew that neither he nor his friends found the whole thing much of a joke , either . |
| 12 | The four ladies found the whole hypermarket shopping experience an immense contrast to the very basic counter service shops that predominate in their home country . |
| 13 | He beat a tattoo with the door-knocker , and again its reverberations filled the whole world . |
| 14 | She was one of the first of the British geographers whose interests covered the whole range of the field , and this breadth is reflected in her many writings . |
| 15 | Their debates encompassed the whole range of problems which would preoccupy successive generations of the intelligentsia . |
| 16 | Jonas witnessed the whole attack from the ground at Luqa , and wrote : ‘ … and then we saw them : vic following vic of small grey forms , 15,000 feet , 16,000 feet , perhaps even higher . |
| 17 | The Tigers controlled the whole peninsula , save for Elephant Pass , a naval base at Karainagar [ see p. 38152 for lifting of siege of Karainagar in April ] , and the Palaly airfield . |
| 18 | The Puritans repudiated the whole history of the Church since the time of the Apostles . |
| 19 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 20 | His sudden talk of alibis made the whole thing sound serious . |
| 21 | Accompanied by rolls of the drum , the two showgirls used the whole floor to tumble — running , somersaulting , back-flipping — while the whip cracked threateningly around their ankles . |
| 22 | Jutting out of it were a series of tall posts , high as a man , and attacking them were a score of figures whilst thirty others looked on , wooden swords in their hands , and three Myrcans directed the whole group . |
| 23 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 24 | Roman roads ran the whole length of Dalmatia , linking Salona with the main seaports . |
| 25 | Those best placed to influence government policy were also most dependent on state patronage to further their military and civil careers , while the police and tax functions delegated to serf-owners made the whole class in one sense a part of the machinery of government . |
| 26 | And when the stars ' faces filled the whole screen so that you saw their huge lips close up like big pillows moving and their great teeth and their smooth matt skin filling the whole screen , it was frightening . |
| 27 | ‘ The sunrise was as the opening of the gates of heaven itself and the glow it threw on the western hills transfigured the whole landscape for half an hour . |
| 28 | ‘ The sunlight was as the opening of the gates of heaven itself and the glow it threw on the western hills transfigured the whole landscape for half an hour . |
| 29 | The brightly lit passage with its floor of encaustic tiles and its white painted walls ran the whole west end of the church . |