Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [conj] [adv] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 2 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 3 | If I reply that in choosing between flavours it does not matter whether or not I confound a present taste with remembered sight and touch , whether I respond to reality or to illusion , I am renouncing rational discourse altogether . |
| 4 | I said I 'd remember that if ever I found him dangling upside down by one toe from a ski-lift cable . |
| 5 | The servicemen were always very helpful in hauling one aboard , but I was not in uniform and I always felt they must be wondering whether or not I had any right to travel . |
| 6 | And the problem of other minds ( ch. 5 ) can be presented as the problem of how , if at all , my observation of the behaviour of human bodies justifies my belief that those bodies are people ; little extra is gained by asking whether and how I know that they are people . |
| 7 | I did n't care whether or not I lost . |
| 8 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |