Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 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 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 15 | Reportedly it wanted a leg up on the business to reduce its development time and eventually aimed to take over the whole project . |
| 16 | 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 . |