Example sentences of "he [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then he went back to his mother , taking the Kings with him , and there he divided the whole spoil with the hidalgos and his other companions , both the Moorish captives and all the spoil of whatever kind , so that they departed right joyfully , being well pleased with what he had done . |
2 | Whenever he had the chance he got the whole school out on to the Common . |
3 | So he got the whole story , and when it was spelled out , the catalogue of suspicions and circumstantial evidence did sound pretty feeble . |
4 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
5 | He read the whole range of papers on most days , and was appalled by their cynical and gleeful exploitation of Callaghan 's faltering stand against what was labelled ‘ mindless militancy ’ at Labour 's grass roots . |
6 | He found the whole conversation stilted and turgid . |
7 | But he found the whole episode deeply hurtful . |
8 | He found the whole thing depressing , to the point that he says in Just Williams that he wrote ‘ The madness screamed up inside me . |
9 | but if the god of heaven is concerned that 's fine , he 's not worrying because he created the whole thing , therefore it seemed to me pretty good reason to be concerned |
10 | Cos he , he changed the whole pad you know . |
11 | He described the whole process as The Water of the Moon , presumably referring to its happening in a running stream when the moon was at the full : |
12 | He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun . |
13 | He sealed the whole area with plastic skin to prevent infection , and then stripped off his gloves and stretched . |
14 | Under these inducements and persuasions Cranmer signed his fifth recantation , in which he condemned the whole heresy of Luther and Zwingli and recognised the Pope as Christ 's Vicar and Supreme Head of the Church . |
15 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
16 | But — ’ and here he turned the whole force of his energetic presence on Jacob — ‘ I would suggest that you do not attempt to bring her home . |
17 | He immediately set off and arrived that night at Lesnes Abbey in Erith , with his household , and if we are to believe that he walked the whole way , it was a goodly walk for a bishop . |
18 | " He spent the whole winter in wasted effort " , while early in the new year his Rhineland civitates too fell to Louis the German . |
19 | Ian said he spent the whole day walking around with a daft grin on his face . |
20 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
21 | He spent the whole evening trying |
22 | He spent the whole meal looking down Laura 's dress while in his pants his prong throbbed and his wallet shrank . |
23 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
24 | But when he sniffed the whole house was full of the smell of the soup . |
25 | ‘ This was exactly what Martinez had planned , and the rumour was that he worked the whole scheme out with Derek Jefferson . |
26 | He had a great appreciation of their visual appeal and he started the whole revolution of using photographs on their own merit and not merely to fill up space . ’ |
27 | On Lehmann 's death he inherited the whole estate . ’ |
28 | 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 |
29 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
30 | He thought the whole incident had been blown up out of proportion . |