Example sentences of "take the whole [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the child has grown beyond babyhood , the father takes charge of the boy 's education , while the mother takes the whole responsibility of the girl 's education and a part of the boy 's education . |
| 2 | The point , though , which takes the whole affair into the realms of the ludicrous is that other members of the England party , such as Boycott and Bairstow , had also played and coached in South Africa but no objection was made to them . |
| 3 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 4 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 5 | Where Sly went for an inward-looking drum-numbed indifference ( made bearable , glamorous even , by a wonderfully impenetrable jungle funk ) , Gaye wrought a song cycle that takes the whole world through doubt , disillusion , destruction and eventual redemption through the power of love and community . |
| 6 | Edgar Wallace , a great fan of this troupe , took a fancy to one Girl in particular and would take the whole team to the races in order to meet her . |
| 7 | ‘ These days they build breaks into them so that if they do knock one over by mistake , it does n't take the whole lot with it . ’ |
| 8 | I 've just put my house on the market in York I 've chosen the if erm that 's that 's you know the whole taking the whole scene into consideration , but if I was in Bournemouth for instance and buying a house in York and I said I phone three or four estates agents and said , Look please send me information through the post . |
| 9 | So all in all , since most of the passage is told from Pemberton 's point of view , we are led in the absence of contrary evidence into taking the whole passage in that light . |
| 10 | The head is balanced in such a way that , when the neck muscles are released , the head goes slightly forward , taking the whole body into movement . |
| 11 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 12 | Paradoxically , as even the impecunious Liberal Democrats have now acknowledged , that 's also a reason for taking the whole business of advertising seriously . |
| 13 | With the help of Fred ( later Sir Frederick ) White , Bowen managed to keep the project out of the clutches of the Australian National University ( at one stage he nearly took the whole setup to the United States ) , and he used friends in high places to raise large sums of money from the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations . |
| 14 | Dad took Peter to work today said I thought he was gon na to John when I came home , he took the whole front of |
| 15 | He was charmed by the tune and took the whole box from her while he listened ; his face reflected an almost childlike absorption . |
| 16 | In fact , we probably take the whole system of communication by telephone very much for granted . |
| 17 | ‘ Come over here and live and take the whole house from me ? |
| 18 | Take the whole package to Japan , and it all gets distinctly surreal |
| 19 | Take the whole interview into account or instead make up my mind too soon without proper evidence ? |
| 20 | Take the whole area of gardening programmes . |
| 21 | Leading companies in the US take the whole process from beginning to end , from assistance in credit marketing , through processing applications to opening accounts and managing them , all based on a complete picture of each individual and their circumstances . |
| 22 | Lack of any firm action by the police even led the Board to take the whole issue to the High Court . |
| 23 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 24 | All those letters from her uncle , ranting incessantly on the subject of Damian Flint , how he had walked into a senior position in Swift and was poised to take the whole company from under Jamie 's nose . |
| 25 | Slowly we began to take the whole idea of the band more seriously . |
| 26 | You 've got to take the whole lot as a unit . |
| 27 | Parents who succeed in adopting a child are likely to take the whole matter of their upbringing even more seriously and conscientiously than many who have given birth to their children . |
| 28 | With that last heave , Maurice 's anchor had wrenched clear of the mud , and the mooring-ropes , unable to take the whole weight of the barge , pulled free and parted from the shore . |
| 29 | Many modern composers have avoided repetition , allowing the words to take the whole burden of form , carrying the music forward in an interminable wandering from one emotive crisis to another . |
| 30 | If they had been at liberty to quit the vessel at Cronstadt , the case would have been quite different ; or if the captain had capriciously discharged the two men who were wanting , the others might not have been compellable to take the whole duty upon themselves , and their agreeing to do so might have been a sufficient consideration for the promise of an advance of wages . |