Example sentences of "[vb past] up the whole [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing to note is that a chase should be built up in exactly the way you built up the whole of your book . |
| 2 | How can the Labour party say that in the year when we opened up the whole of industry to competition , in the year when we tightened the price control and made it clear that the customer is high on our list of priorities ? |
| 3 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 4 | Combined with the temporary solution of the coal crisis in 1925 , which will be discussed later , the anticipated textile victory buoyed up the whole of the trades union movement . |
| 5 | Zambia sucked the Munchis to softness before swallowing them , a procedure that took up the whole of the half-hour programme . |
| 6 | They took up the whole of the street and nothing could move until this sea of humanity had passed by . ’ |
| 7 | His days in London were crowded with what were essentially business appointments — the regular book committee meeting at Faber and Faber on Wednesday itself took up the whole of the lunchtime and afternoon . |
| 8 | DeVore turned briefly to smile at Berdichev before returning his attention to the scene on the other side of the one-way mirror that took up the whole of one wall of the study . |
| 9 | A cocktail bar , with two or three bar stools in front of it , took up the whole of one corner . |
| 10 | Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her . |
| 11 | Under the progressive system of construction it was , however , impossible to do this , and with a very few exceptions a shortage of any one part held up the whole of the line . |