Example sentences of "and [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Comments by Archbishop Romero on the Catholic radio station , to the effect that the march did not represent the views of the Salvadorean people and avoided the whole issue of human rights violations , were attacked as a vile calumny on Salvadorean women.3 On the day of the march , " friends and relatives " ( El Mando ) kindly flew light aircraft and helicopters over San Salvador to protect the demonstration on the route to the staff headquarters of the armed forces . |
| 2 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 3 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 4 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 5 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
| 6 | Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank . |
| 7 | Giving her a look of disgust , he bent forward and flung the whole package on the fire . |
| 8 | Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great ! |
| 9 | After a couple of halfhearted bucks he settled and found the whole thing rather boring . |
| 10 | This sudden fame impressed and disturbed the whole school , including the teachers , who called Charlie ‘ Girlie ’ . |
| 11 | He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa . |
| 12 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 13 | On the following day the little Englishman … had his violin brought to our rooms and played the whole afternoon , Wolfgang accompanying on his own . |
| 14 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 15 | And he said nothing and she did nothing until Geoffroy , the tough son , took exception to his brother Fromont taking refuge in a monastery , and when he would n't come out , he piled up brushwood and burned the whole thing down , monks and Fromont and all . |
| 16 | That er exploded the detonators there and exploded the whole thing . |
| 17 | On 16 July a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines killed 1600 people , caused serious disruption to communications and affected the whole country 's economy . |
| 18 | As always , however , these are nicely balanced by examples of people who have gone ‘ a bridge too far ’ , stuck with totally unobtainable ambitions and allowed the whole company to be pushed into the pursuit , usually , of a product dream which the market has quite clearly rejected and which can not be made to fly . |
| 19 | I saw it at its best , in April , when it was well above the third magnitude , and dominated the whole area ; at that stage it was strongly orange-red . |
| 20 | The Youngs ' pair , split by the draw , nevertheless came together and raced the whole way side by side like twins . |
| 21 | When the sea struck it it was terrific you know the whole tower trembled and you 'd think a giant got a hold of her and shook the whole thing up . |
| 22 | Daak lifted the chainsword , and the cloak , and the upper half of the corpse it contained , and swung the whole mass . |
| 23 | In the Second Test we struggled for possession and spent the whole match backpedalling ’ . |
| 24 | Despite the scepticism which accompanied the launch of Pump technology and surrounded the whole concept of custom fit , it now has a strong band of converts and has even spawned a series of copycat technology among competitors . |
| 25 | ‘ Forsyth went bananas and abused the whole system , ’ says one senior wet . |
| 26 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 27 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 28 | ‘ Government ’ , Denys Finch Hatton wrote to his friend Kermit Roosevelt , ' … panicked and sent for Delamere who seems to have gone down there with a boy and a cook and settled the whole thing . ’ |
| 29 | He sat upright on the sofa and watched the whole film . |
| 30 | Mr Close accused the ‘ hear no evil , see no evil ’ brigade of guilt through silence and urged the whole community to stand united and to reject terrorism from whatever quarter it came . |