Example sentences of "i [vb past] the whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |
| 2 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
| 3 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 4 | I encapsulated the whole scene , the dingy cubicle with its plywood partitions ; the warped lino , as undulant as the earthen floor of a barn ; Gyggle 's hideous cheesecloth shirt , the buttons pulled apart to the sternum , revealing still more tight ginger curlicues . |
| 5 | I stuffed the whole wad back into the envelope and phoned the Brain . |
| 6 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 7 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 8 | ‘ I got the whole thing up and running . |
| 9 | I got the whole thing under control . |
| 10 | ‘ Screaming ’ ‘ I was downstairs in the living-room and when I came out I found the whole stairway on fire , ’ she said . |
| 11 | But I found the whole experience very sexy because it was so impersonal . |
| 12 | The cartoon was woven by Edinburgh Tapestry Company into a tapestry 8′ by 10′ and I found the whole process of an artist collaborating with weavers quite fascinating . |
| 13 | I reported the whole lot in a letter to the Guardian when the Press Council became a prominent issue , but it was never published . |
| 14 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |
| 15 | I told the whole news team yesterday , William , Paul , Lucy , Gorgeous , Abby , Alex , and you yourself , Oxford will win . |
| 16 | At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor ! |
| 17 | I played the whole year with Peter and we won the British Open . |
| 18 | It is about four miles to the Port of Ness from Cross and I think I tiptoed the whole way . |
| 19 | " I imagined the whole lab knows . |
| 20 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 21 | ‘ You have been very clever — in fact , too clever ’ and the goodie saying , ‘ Kill me , but let the girl go ’ must be taken as read , but Casaubon does not fail to intone after the not tremendously exciting climax , ‘ Maybe I imagined the whole thing . ’ |
| 22 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 23 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 24 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ So about a year ago I knocked the whole thing on the head . |
| 26 | I spent the whole holiday writing this essay and I won the prize because nobody else entered for it . |
| 27 | I spent the whole summer in the sun , often in the sea or swimming pools . |
| 28 | At the beginning , I spent the whole summer reading everything du Maurier had written . |
| 29 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 30 | I loved the whole ambience . |