Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Dad put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a tin of tobacco , and Cromb emptied the whole lot into his new pipe with Dad having a look of disbelief on his face , ’ Kerr recounted . |
| 2 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 3 | bought one of those stinky old er pine tree things and Paulie ripped the whole wrapper off it |
| 4 | And did you know that Page Up and Down shifted the whole document up and down on the screen ? |
| 5 | Sir Gregory had a painful discussion with his wife over how they should react to Pascoe 's snub , in which Lady Roscarrock gave vent to her outrage saying that they had every right to keep both Tristram and Jennifer in custody indefinitely ; but Sir Gregory wanted the whole business settled and finished with , so after a lengthy wrangle he swallowed the family pride and went over to Hill House . |
| 6 | Ivy draped the whole frontage of the building and mingled with the moss of the large dilapidated lawn . |
| 7 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 8 | He says Gore treated the whole thing like a game of chess . |
| 9 | Darwin converted the whole world to evolutionism — but this was possible only because the general idea of evolution could be exploited in so many different ways . |
| 10 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 11 | The story goes that when Nicholl was explaining a new tactical formation to Cherednik , Gotsmanov had the whole squad rolling around by interrupting : ‘ What time does the coach leave . ’ |
| 12 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 13 | When he spoke at the exhibition , Vivien stood the whole time , keeping her eyes fixed upon his face . |
| 14 | The journalists from France 's national sporting daily L'Equipe picked the whole front five and all the threequarters , with two Scotsmen and two Frenchmen making up their imaginary side . |
| 15 | When Robert II of Flanders called at St Thierry with his sister , widow of Cnut IV of Denmark , the abbot Rudolph cleansed the whole building , hung it with rich hangings and tapestries , filled it with carvings , sculptures , and other precious objects , to turn his simple Benedictine house into a suitable environment for the reception of so magnificent a prince . |
| 16 | In 1961 Gibson reshaped the whole Les Paul line into SG form and the Custom became the white-finished , top-of-the-line model complete with a Gibson vibrola ; Les Paul requested that his name be dropped soon afterwards . |
| 17 | Of course Ed was really peeved about how Martinez handled the whole Harley business . |
| 18 | Endill watched the whole scene with wonder . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you saying Nicola made the whole thing up ? ’ |
| 20 | Count Tolstoy believed the whole debt should be cancelled because of that . |
| 21 | RTE showed the whole game v the scum last week . |
| 22 | Anna thought the whole idea of going to the police bizarre . |
| 23 | Damian cleared the whole floor and , in an inspired move , installed a coke-fired stove snatched from a derelict BR waiting room . |
| 24 | Putting it as politely as he can , Mr Tyson said the whole affair ‘ encouraged ’ him to return to paid employment . |
| 25 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 26 | Since Egypt rejected the whole Memorandum , it also rejected this third party right of support . |
| 27 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 28 | Mike handled the whole thing . |
| 29 | Unable to concede just how disturbed he had become , Waugh put the whole affair down to temporary pharmaceutical poisoning and too much alcohol . |
| 30 | Not content with having Equator hog the technology that it had dropped , DEC brought the whole VLIW project in-house , picking up two ex-Multiflow engineers on the way , to finish the job . |