Example sentences of "we [vb past] the whole [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if we sold the whole lot we 're gon na struggle a bit . |
| 2 | ‘ Lots of people sent memos saying ‘ I know we planned the whole thing for September or October but we are going out in July ’ , and it simply was n't ready , ’ he said . |
| 3 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 4 | Right , we sub-divided the whole book into four main areas , we divided into , husband and wife , male and female , loneliness and death . |
| 5 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 6 | In the , when we dealt with the matter of children and communion , we based the whole case upon the doctrine that nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for all and sundry . |
| 7 | So we spent the whole afternoon in aimless beer-drinking and student ragging , singing student songs to stamping feet and clapping hands . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd rather we spent the whole weekend fighting , would n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | We spent the whole morning climbing the steep , hard ice in the couloir 's depths , so were somewhat dismayed when two figures skiied up to the base of the couloir , raced up to and past us , virtually dispensing with runners and belays , and then abseiled down from the top of the hard climbing at one third height , passing us again . |
| 10 | Erm following discussion at the Airport Policy panel , erm we submitted the whole weeks which you will see we set out in appendix er one of the report . |
| 11 | After that I did a lot of arranging of the parts around the dynamics , and we recorded the whole thing at Eel Pie ( Pete Townshend 's studio ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We talked the whole evening — he was hilarious . |
| 13 | If cervical intraepithelial neoplasia was diagnosed from the tissue specimens we excised the whole transformation zone about 4–6 weeks later by low voltage diathermy ablation or cold knife conisation . |
| 14 | Mean time between failures on 3.5 ’ disk drives made by IBM Corp of 750,000 hours will have to get a lot nearer the 2m or more hours of the company 's manhole cover disks before it can entrust mainframe data to arrays of the little ones , Electronic News reports : that 's funny , we thought the whole idea of disk arrays was that one built sufficient redundancy into the array of cheap disks that no-one need worry about failures ever again . |
| 15 | Yes and we took the whole thing down to the kitchen for the upstairs rooms were just going like this . |
| 16 | ‘ We saw the whole thing , ’ they said . |
| 17 | Reflecting on the rise and rise of Kilkenny hurling he said : ‘ We struggled the whole way through 1991 , yet reached an All Ireland final . |
| 18 | So — hard as it may be for some people to believe — we disinfected the whole place , sloshing the stuff everywhere . |
| 19 | We discussed the whole thing and i said there was absolutely no point at all . |
| 20 | We discussed the whole thing last night in my room , but we did n't reach a final conclusion , and today we have to . ’ |
| 21 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 22 | We had also managed to scrounge plenty of drink and , as we had the whole theatre to ourselves , we played endless games of paper chase and treasure hunt in and out of the stalls and the boxes and the circle . |
| 23 | But it finally ended up that we had the whole thing Rousay Egilsay and Wyre . |