Example sentences of "[pers pn] the whole [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
2 | Before them the bevelled slope , fifteen feet high , cut off from them the whole upper expanse of Aurae Phiala , with all its flower-beds and stone walls ; and all its visitors had vanished with it . |
3 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
4 | 'I 'd tell you the whole bitter story , but you do n't have the time to listen and I do n't have the patience to explain . |
5 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
6 | Jesus Christ and all , and all his fucking disciples and Mohammed and all his fucking disciples and everybody else they love him , they love him the whole bloody thing is what rules the bloody universe . |
7 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |