Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd wanted to lift the whole car , I think he could have . |
| 2 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 3 | As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented . |
| 4 | Sergeant Davis had managed to conduct the whole conversation nicely balanced on an edge between politeness and aggression . |
| 5 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |