Example sentences of "up the whole [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont . |
| 2 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 3 | Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma . |
| 4 | Betelgeux is a vast red supergiant , large enough to swallow up the whole orbit of the Earth round the Sun , while the pure white Rigel is a cosmic searchlight with 60000 times the Sun 's luminosity . |
| 5 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 6 | For the first time in warfare , motorized trucks were the sole means of transport , for to have used horses would have choked up the whole movement of supplies . |
| 7 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 8 | Keep the overall silhouette slim with a tailored or belted jacket and soften up the whole effect with a feminine frilled blouse or floaty scarf around the neck . |
| 9 | Keep the overall silhouette slim with a tailored or belted jacket and soften up the whole effect with a feminine frilled blouse or floaty scarf around the neck . |
| 10 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 11 | This insight opened up the whole world of aromatic organic chemistry . |
| 12 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 13 | The tuna fish swim beneath schools of dolphins , fishermen do not discriminate and scoop up the whole lot in their nets . |
| 14 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |