Example sentences of "[vb past] the whole [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 2 | It was decided to stop using them because the stress of the three hundred and sixty-degree swing made the whole spire shake . |
| 3 | His sudden talk of alibis made the whole thing sound serious . |
| 4 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 5 | But you can imagine running your household on that kind of a system , supposing you got the whole food basket , and supposing it was adequate , could you make your children eat the same thing day after day , after day after day . |
| 6 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The 1984/85 miners ' strike temporarily changed the whole energy demand picture with oil offtake for electricity generation returning to the peak levels of the early 1970s . |
| 9 | I told the whole news team yesterday , William , Paul , Lucy , Gorgeous , Abby , Alex , and you yourself , Oxford will win . |
| 10 | In outlining its attitude towards ‘ the Jewish Question ’ , Vanguard seemed prima facie to be taking a stance which rejected the whole conspiracy theory of politics . |
| 11 | The Youngs ' pair , split by the draw , nevertheless came together and raced the whole way side by side like twins . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd rather we spent the whole weekend fighting , would n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 14 | His advance team of medics claims to have found many cases just as serious as Irma Hadzimuratovic , whose plight prompted the whole mercy mission . |
| 15 | By permitting one side of the frame to touch the basement membrane , the subepithelial zone was divided into areas of 0.008 mm , which usually included the whole lamina propria of the villi and the so called ‘ mixed cell zone ’ of the Peyer 's patches domes . |
| 16 | It had the right to examine policy and to question ministers and was organized into a general subcommittee which examined the whole PESC system and a series of specific subcommittees , each specializing in an area of expenditure . |
| 17 | If cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was diagnosed from the tissue specimens we excised the whole transformation zone about 4–6 weeks later by low voltage diathermy ablation or cold knife conisation . |
| 18 | It blew the whole village upside down . |
| 19 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 20 | However , this impulse to abolish distinctions of holiness within a universal community of creation was deeply contradicted by an opposite influence on Christianity from gnosticism which viewed the whole material creation , and especially sexuality , as a realm of fallenness separated from God . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | Businesss Manager John Stoney explained that this meant the whole methanol business was now registered — the first supplier in Europe . |
| 23 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 24 | They had some very funny ideas about the construction as it was some 300ft below the surface and some of the local people feared the whole land area would collapse . |
| 25 | Charles says : ‘ We never understood the whole title business . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I did the whole washing machine |
| 28 | Their success gave them a power that everyone wanted to share ; their commercial momentum carried the whole pop world along . |
| 29 | The brightly lit passage with its floor of encaustic tiles and its white painted walls ran the whole west end of the church . |
| 30 | Des McNulty , chairman of the council 's sub-committee on reorganisation , said the whole consultation exercise was based on a false premise and the admission that the figures were serious flawed was very significant . |