Example sentences of "up the whole [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
2 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
3 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
4 | He would see it through , he would find the Way Out , And he might not even stop at simply escaping ; he might just smash up the whole foul contraption of their testing and imprisonment apparatus — this " life " — while he was about It . |
5 | Pat Devine , secretary of the NUWM , summed up the whole Communist objection to ILP concept of the United Front as meaning a formal alliance between groups . |
6 | Rourke had set up the whole annoying episode . |
7 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |