Example sentences of "they [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the clothes were wet and were put to dry in front of the household 's fire , they polluted the whole atmosphere with sulphurous fumes . |
| 2 | Then the Bonn government leaned on Germany 's aerospace industry chiefs so hard that they scrapped the whole event . |
| 3 | It was only some time later when he was safely on his way to Theatre that they realised the whole lot had been filmed . |
| 4 | ‘ The bosses went bankrupt , so they sold the whole place , auctioned it off , and threw in the apprentices as well . |
| 5 | They fought the whole time , but underneath she was frantic for his love and approval . ’ |
| 6 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 7 | The Minoans worshipped many gods and goddesses in a wide variety of forms , both animate and inanimate ; they regarded the whole cosmos as animated by deities and spirits . |
| 8 | Moreover , the distance was exaggerated by the educational character of their proposal , which employers recognized would restrict their freedom to use juvenile labour at their own discretion ; and , given employers ' traditional suspicion of further education , they regarded the whole idea as unnecessary , potentially expensive and disruptive of production schedules . |
| 9 | They surveyed the whole hill , right over the top . |
| 10 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 11 | Together they explored the whole house . |
| 12 | One , in order that the old type of arrangement you know , would no longer prevail , and that subsequently if people were going to have assemblies , part assemblies before they assembled the whole unit , then whole areas would have to be cleared , new benches would have to be built , the departments would have to be totally gone through you know , and all the rubbish cleared out and , and access and egress you know , to every department to make life easier for everybody . |
| 13 | They ulayed the whole way , that strange , high , trembling sound filling the compound and filling the heart with an eerie excitement . |
| 14 | This is achieved by treating highly selective versions of experience and life as if they covered the whole range of experiential processes and forms of living , which , in fact , excludes the normal experiences and lives of the vast majority of the population . |
| 15 | They covered the whole range of the law as so far pronounced . |
| 16 | Later illustrations brought in more : they included the whole life-cycle of an insect , as the plates of butterflies and moths of Humphrys and Westwood ( 1841 , 1843–5 ) do ; in their handsome but crowded pictures we find a number of close species , on characteristic food plants , thus getting both system and ecology . |
| 17 | They leased the whole house out to a man called William . |
| 18 | When planners in these corporations invented a new piece of military hardware , the Cruise missile , and proceeded to ‘ sell ’ it to their contacts in the Pentagon and in Congress , they structured the whole context of defence debates not only in the United States but across all the NATO countries in Western Europe as well ( Kaldor , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | They brought the whole flock of sheep and goats , thirty-five or forty of them , on to the roof to tie on the lukals — the double-pouched woven saddle-bags — stuffed with potatoes and Tibetan salt for trading in the south . |
| 20 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 21 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |
| 22 | Then they did the whole thing all over again without stirrups , and all the time talking and shouting to one another . |
| 23 | Then they bought the whole lot . |
| 24 | I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself . |
| 25 | Mike had a cassette that he ran through some speakers — they had the whole equipment set up for me . |
| 26 | This is erm and this taking in not only the room they had the whole countryside . |
| 27 | And they had the whole machinery negotiations fixed you see . |
| 28 | They had the whole Fleet Canteen , . |