Example sentences of "she [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
2 | She emptied the whole toybox out . |
3 | And , slowly , she realised the whole situation could be turned to her advantage . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She passed the whole thing over to me . |
6 | She found the whole thing very embarrassing and had tried several times to back out of it , but Felipe would not hear of such a thing . |
7 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
8 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
9 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
10 | She worked the whole trip out , to the last farthing . |
11 | And she pulled the whole thing down . |
12 | She needed the whole world to be miserable . |
13 | She thought the whole thing had the quality of a dream , if the whole muddled mess was somehow totally unreal . |
14 | Since the baby 's birth and its mother 's death her whole view of life seemed to have changed abruptly , as though someone had shaken a giant kaleidoscope and she saw the whole world and herself in a different light . |
15 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
16 | Chesarynth booted in the program , making her own little file with an octopus of dark hollow symbols : a worm that would eat up any trace of her prying , provided she did the whole thing quickly enough that no-one noticed while she was in . |
17 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
18 | She had the whole day . |
19 | The next day she had the whole thing in perspective again , especially after she did find Louise at lunch and told her as much of the story as she could without mentioning Tom Russell . |
20 | What I was saying was , just that like , they had all these pieces of furniture in there , it was supposed to be a suite , but my mum , my mum got round and tell you every single piece that was a different colour or the wrong shape , or did n't fit on the pedestal properly , or this and that , and she had the whole lot changed at least three times . |
21 | Staring rather blindly at Gwen , she ran the whole conversation through her head again . |
22 | The journey home was no problem — she slept the whole way . |
23 | She slept the whole journey , content in the knowledge that Luke was beside her , in control , in her heart . |
24 | Eva knew what she wanted : she wanted the whole house transformed , every inch of it , and she wanted energetic , industrious people around her . |
25 | So she kept going round and round and she ploughed the whole lot up ! |
26 | What she saw made her read the whole page carefully . |