If you like, the whole sequence could be shot from their point of view.
"The whole sequence was perfect for what I wanted to say."
The whole sequence didn't take more than three or four seconds.
The whole sequence ended up being used in the final version.
I stared at it for a long time, running the whole sequence of events through my head.
In her mind's eye, she saw not the next step, but where the whole sequence was leading.
The hands change place, and the whole sequence is done again, starting from the left.
The whole sequence played itself off and my mind moved on to something else.
From first to last the whole sequence had taken perhaps ten seconds.
They went over the whole sequence of events and my part in them.