Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rolled to her feet and crawled out to find almost the whole population of Riverbank gathered outside . |
| 2 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 3 | But I want to hear now the whole story of your life , and how you came to be with the boys I saw you with that day . ’ |
| 4 | It is the first layer to be secreted in the cycle of cuticle formation , arising on top of the epidermal microvilli as small plaques which subsequently fuse to cover virtually the whole body . |
| 5 | A quick-scan function is also built in , adjustable to cover either the whole VHF air band or stored frequencies only . |
| 6 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 7 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 8 | The recommendation was that 5,000 to 6,000 of these were suitable for inclusion in the lending section of any small or middle-sized library , and that the largest libraries would be expected to include almost the whole range of British books , amounting to about 17,000 titles . |
| 9 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 10 | But she had an idea , from Cara 's remark about sending a card home , that her sister fully expected her to stay away the whole fortnight as planned . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Cockfield , who expect to have virtually the whole village behind them , add recent signings Nigel Sams and Stephen Barker to the squad , but there will be late fitness tests for midfielder Mark Roughley and Kevin Pierce . |
| 12 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 13 | But the plan is to acquire a new facility comprising warehouse and offices near Düsseldorft , and for the Bremen office to close so the whole operation comes under one roof . |
| 14 | To study one sub-system in detail without regard to interactions with the others is usually inadequate , but on the other hand , to try to examine simultaneously the whole complex of sub-systems is to invite disorientation . |
| 15 | Its purpose is to survey systematically the whole sky in the infrared , from a vantage point well above the obscuring effects of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 16 | The first is that there is no need to follow slavishly the whole procedure for each offence . |