Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 2 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 3 | Within days of the settlement Mass Observation reported widespread shame ‘ that we had let down the whole tradition of England 's pledges for honesty , fair play and resistance to threats . ’ |
| 4 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 5 | Having felt carefully the whole length of the injured leg , Sophie looked up . |
| 6 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 7 | It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised . |
| 8 | In the same memorandum of April 1986 that eventually brought down the whole house of cards — the memorandum that mentioned the diversion of funds to the contras — an extraordinary phrase appeared : ‘ The Iranians have been told that our presence in Iran is ‘ a holy commitment ’ . ’ |
| 9 | And he he more or less laid down the whole theory of probability , in a few days , Pascal |
| 10 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 11 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 12 | But there are erm others who , for whom teaching is the major aspect and the major important role that they perceive for themselves erm but there is always a balance and on balance , taken over the whole system , I should think that most people spend fifty or sixty per cent of their time on research . |
| 13 | I mean , I 'm n this is no criticism because you , you could n't er , you 'd have taken up the whole hour if you 'd included examples . |
| 14 | An ‘ appropriate test ’ will mean one which suits the curriculum studied by the pupils in question ; but item difficulty does not depend upon what the pupils have studied so the whole idea of an appropriate test is nonsense — according to the Rasch model . |
| 15 | After he has killed off the whole lot of them in various ways , he shouts in triumph , ‘ Jesus , I got 'em all ! ’ |
| 16 | For the first time in warfare , motorized trucks were the sole means of transport , for to have used horses would have choked up the whole movement of supplies . |
| 17 | And there was a mark on his finger where his the handle of the pail was just sunk into the flesh of his fingers he was stood there the whole Winter listening to this music . |