Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [art] whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Takes out the whole aim of the play . |
| 2 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
| 3 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 4 | ‘ You think I 'll take over the whole show , do n't you ? ’ accused Mountbatten . |
| 5 | Multi-party cases are notoriously difficult to analyse as individual cases benefit from standardisation , but generic work can take up a whole caseload . |
| 6 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 7 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 8 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 9 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |
| 10 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |
| 11 | ‘ That one scene took up a whole morning and I did think to myself I could have written half a script in that time . |
| 12 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 13 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 14 | Floorboards tend to be fitted in long lengths and taking up a whole length is an unnecessary bore . |
| 15 | I have here a copy of the committee which was formed that night , and also a copy of the minutes , I 'll give each Councillor one , and then they can read it at their leisure , instead of me taking up the whole meeting . |
| 16 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
| 17 | They 're very popular with the tourists , I think they feel they are taking back a whole cheese as opposed to a portion cut off a bigger cheese . |
| 18 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 19 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 23 | Reportedly it wanted a leg up on the business to reduce its development time and eventually aimed to take over the whole project . |
| 24 | Relevant state benefits for which the plaintiff must give credit should still be estimated and deducted when fixing the amount to be paid into court before a certificate is received as the plaintiff will be entitled to take out the whole amount in court and the defendant remains liable to reimburse the Secretary of State . |