Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] whether [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to decide whether she should swallow her pride and tell John how she felt or whether to just go on and hope for the best . |
| 2 | In 1945 I worked hard at my Higher School Certificate subjects of English , French , and history — the Tudors and Stuarts , of course — and tried to decide whether I should have preferred to be Thomas Wolsey or Thomas More . |
| 3 | We welcome the proposal to reduce the statutory time limit on all existing and future permissions which we believe is essential if minerals operations are to be brought up to and maintained at modern standards or reviewed to assess whether they should be extinguished because the environmental costs of working is too high . |
| 4 | However , in July Mrs Singh phoned to ask whether I could go with her to Cedars ' open evening . |
| 5 | It looked as if nobody had been to church that morning and she even began to wonder whether there would be any lunch . |
| 6 | As they hurried down dusty , echoing staircases , Mungo began to wonder whether he would have enough money . |
| 7 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 8 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 9 | This really sapped my energies — it was so obviously just a sport for them — and I began to question whether I could go on . |
| 10 | Three major contracts and another 19 minor ones are outstanding , but Mr Outhwaite yesterday declined to say whether he would have to increase the £305 million reserves he has set aside . |
| 11 | He visited Edinburgh , saw what they were doing there , liked it and decided to see whether it could be done at Sussex and approached the university through the Bi-Medical Engineering Group , of which I 'm a member , and I was interested . |
| 12 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 13 | It was impressed with the usefulness and flexibility of the scheme , but needed to consider whether there could be a more effective use of resources . |
| 14 | Oliver started to ask whether they could not drop it and go home , but it struck him that he was in a precarious position and he kept quiet . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , ’ she added , with a quick look round as if she thought to check whether anyone might hear , ‘ Sir John 's partiality for Benedict extended also to his mother . ’ |
| 16 | I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out . |
| 17 | They waited for my comments , waited to see whether I would condemn their beliefs or laugh . |
| 18 | She waited to see whether she would be believed . |
| 19 | It was crossing their minds that it might be safer to leave him in the car , but they had to consider whether they could trust him not to steal it . |
| 20 | The commodore had to assess whether he could afford to permit this small force to stay and pick up survivors from torpedoed vessels . |
| 21 | A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids . |
| 22 | Practice partner Jack Nicklaus also had an ignominious start , and even Norman himself had contemplated whether he might sue the Royal & Ancient if he injured himself in the dune grass . |
| 23 | He wanted to know whether they would be prepared to take payment for what they produced after everyone else had taken a cut . |
| 24 | who wanted to live together , and wanted to have a child , but they wanted to know whether they would have equal rights as parents |
| 25 | He wanted to know whether we would monitor the introduction of the new disability benefits and their impact in policy terms and with regard to their administration . |
| 26 | ‘ My sister 's getting married next week and I wanted to know whether there 'd be any chance of a spot of leave . ’ |
| 27 | He wanted to know whether she would like him to make her a cup of tea or whether they might wait until his wife returned from a committee meeting . |
| 28 | I wanted to know whether it would affect the pH of my soil . |
| 29 | Lawyer D's client ( the organisation ) wanted to know whether it could release the tenancy on the land without the consent of the surviving partner ( the son ) . |
| 30 | Japanese scientists attempted to discover whether they could change the behaviour patterns of the troupe . |