Example sentences of "[v-ing] whether it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 2 | Should you acquire an adult dog from a rescue centre , it may be worth enquiring whether it is marked in this manner to ensure that the record is updated when you take possession of the dog . |
| 3 | At these levels , borrowers with savings or investments must be wondering whether it is worthwhile using some of their cash to pay off the mortgage in part or in full . |
| 4 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 5 | For some reason he found himself wondering whether it would penetrate to the forest floor , or would the ground-cover of pine needles remain dry and fragrant ? |
| 6 | But even as she was citing this as the reason , citing it only to herself , she was wondering whether it were true . |
| 7 | And those who felt a niggle in their knee last month are wondering whether it will get better in April 21 . |
| 8 | ‘ We were wondering whether it would be possible for the Circle to achieve royal patronage . |
| 9 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 10 | If you 're wondering whether it sounds like a thirty year-old Strat , the answer is an obvious ‘ no ’ . |
| 11 | And I am wondering whether it is the Devil 's work . ’ |
| 12 | That you are wondering whether it is safe to come here with Tom ? ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |
| 14 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 15 | FOLLOWING the recent decision to lift the ban on those cricketers who toured South Africa 2½ years ago , I find myself wondering whether it is worthwhile making laws and regulations at all . |
| 16 | When challenged to say what was on his mind , he replied that he had been wondering whether it would ever be given to him to make France great again , as it had been in the days of Charlemagne . |
| 17 | Hazel was just wondering whether it would be worth while starting a side-passage to link Bigwig 's hole to Dandelion 's , when he felt a stamp of warning from somewhere close by . |
| 18 | There you are , trembling and writhing with lust , feeling passion in every corpuscle , and the penis is snoring away regardless , leaving you in a state of mortal terror , wondering whether it will every work again without the assistance of a rope and pulley . |
| 19 | Still , sacrifices had to be made , though sometimes one could n't help wondering whether it was all worth while . |
| 20 | I 'm never going to forget what I saw — or stop wondering whether it 's happening again . ’ |
| 21 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 22 | I was wondering whether it was common for women when they were found they were pregnant to talk amongst their women friends and really leave the men out of it as it were . |
| 23 | They were wondering whether it was going to happen again . |
| 24 | ‘ I think it 's all right , ’ responded Floy , warily , but even as he spoke he was wondering whether it was all right , and whether they might n't be better simply to walk back through the forest and on to the road . |
| 25 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 26 | She caught herself wondering whether it mattered if Pascoe had done it , whether it was invariably wrong to kill when a murder meant removing a menace . |
| 27 | wondering whether it 's I 'm giving it to him , to him or what . |
| 28 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 29 | ‘ But of course — my wife says that we anthropologists are like a housewife faced with the remains of yesterday 's stew and wondering whether it can possibly be eked out to make another meal . ’ |
| 30 | You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things . |