Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations . |
| 2 | If he 'd wanted to lift the whole car , I think he could have . |
| 3 | They would be hard to remember ; they would have been a nuisance to printers , who would have had to make a whole series of new pieces of type ; but perhaps most important , they were ambiguous . |
| 4 | Once established the pattern would then simply have spread to cover the whole animal . |
| 5 | She seemed to have managed to collar a whole plate of them still on their sticks . |
| 6 | The code of military behaviour had come to permeate the whole world of knightly behaviour , not just the field of battle . |
| 7 | It 's almost mesmeric as well is n't it , this repetition of now , now , now between between the but as as you were saying , it 's sketching all the details in so you , if you were sketching a fox , you know you begin somewhere and say you begin with the nose you 've just got a little detail the nose and the eyes but eventually you 've got to put the whole sketch in . |
| 8 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 9 | You 've got to take the whole lot as a unit . |
| 10 | You 've got to lift the whole lot off the wall and unthread the curtains and put back the right number of rings and hooks and it 's a palaver and I have n't done it . |
| 11 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 12 | As an adolescent and well into his twenties he had affected to despise the whole fairy tale — the people , the properties , the false virtues , the false security it represented . |
| 13 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |
| 14 | Sergeant Davis had managed to conduct the whole conversation nicely balanced on an edge between politeness and aggression . |
| 15 | In a review of John Betjeman 's verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells ( 1960 ) , Philip Larkin remarked approvingly that Betjeman , in his triumphant lucidity , had managed to bypass the whole light industry of exegesis ; that Eliot 's famous demand about the need of poets , in the present state of civilisation , to be difficult could only be an ingenious bit of intellectual job-creation , a Modernistic charter to make work for unemployed critics ; and that the tradition of Kipling and A. E. Housman stood ready to hand for instant revival , ever eager to prove that poetry can still enjoy a reading public if only the poet is prepared to be simple , moving and memorable . |
| 16 | Perhaps unsure of exactly what to expect from Alsace wines , it seems British wine drinkers have tended to give the whole lot a miss . |
| 17 | To help fashion the ‘ whole child ’ they have needed to know the whole child . |
| 18 | Of course it 's Yours Truly that 's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle ! |
| 19 | That is to say , all species have tried to convert the whole world in to themselves if they possibly can . |