Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] whole " in BNC.
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1 | Ivy draped the whole frontage of the building and mingled with the moss of the large dilapidated lawn . |
2 | And Dad put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a tin of tobacco , and Cromb emptied the whole lot into his new pipe with Dad having a look of disbelief on his face , ’ Kerr recounted . |
3 | She emptied the whole toybox out . |
4 | Then he went back to his mother , taking the Kings with him , and there he divided the whole spoil with the hidalgos and his other companions , both the Moorish captives and all the spoil of whatever kind , so that they departed right joyfully , being well pleased with what he had done . |
5 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
6 | Giving her a look of disgust , he bent forward and flung the whole package on the fire . |
7 | She passed the whole thing over to me . |
8 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
9 | But however we resolve the problem we must never cut across the basic teaching of other scriptures , that one man 's disobedience plunged the whole human race into sin , subjecting us all to death ( see for example Romans 5:12ff . ) . |
10 | I stuffed the whole wad back into the envelope and phoned the Brain . |
11 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
12 | When we could n't revive it , it made the whole thing worse for them . |
13 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
14 | The fact that we had definite goals on each trek , such as reaching a summit by sunrise , made the whole thing feel like an expedition . |
15 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
16 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
17 | The ravages of time had caused pieces to break away here and there , so that newer patches of different grey made the whole affair appear shabbier than ever . |
18 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
19 | The Unwins themselves — and it was impossible for anyone to grudge them their moment — said over and over that it was great , just great that one of the horses actually on the train had won one of the races , it made the whole thing worthwhile , and the whole party , drifting into the dining car in true party mood , agreed and applauded . |
20 | Her interesting talk and demonstration made the whole operation look so easy that members were inspired to go home and make their own . |
21 | What made the whole case so remarkable was his confession to five other murders , his bizarre method of removing the evidence — by dissolving the bodies in acid — and his claims that he indulged in vampirism . |
22 | ‘ Whoever it was that took her never spoke a word the whole time , which made the whole experience worse . |
23 | He said : ‘ I 'm desperate to regain a Cup place , and that made the whole episode even worse . ’ |
24 | Lorentz might have been very aware that he was an actor , but for Hollywood and its audiences it was Muni 's acting that made the whole ‘ job ’ permissible , acceptable , intelligible , bearable , and successful . |
25 | If these fears were likely to prolong the discussions over its future , the socio-political context of its development made the whole affair even more complex . |
26 | Those best placed to influence government policy were also most dependent on state patronage to further their military and civil careers , while the police and tax functions delegated to serf-owners made the whole class in one sense a part of the machinery of government . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Most of them , though , were sympathetic and some , like Jeremy Paxman on Breakfast Time , made the whole thing that much less of an ordeal . |
29 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
30 | 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 . |