Example sentences of "[vb infin] whether it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , yes it did yes er I do n't know whether it made us get more idle or what but erm the hours we used to work and erm I , I never had a sitting-down job I was standing all the while , and I only went if we could sort the keys out you know , we were lucky if we could sort them out to put the keys ready for packing you see , everybody wanted that job . |
| 2 | I read — I do not know whether it came from the Department of Energy or from Conservative central office ; I suspect that it was the latter — that privatisation of the coal industry will drive a stake through the heart of Dracula , the leader of the NUM . |
| 3 | So you do n't know whether it had just been built and |
| 4 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 5 | I do n't know whether it closed down or not but there was a big inquiry into it . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 7 | They did not know whether it cleared because people had left voluntarily , or because people had been evicted , but clear it did . |
| 8 | I can not remember whether it soared off into space from time to time , though I guess it must have . |
| 9 | So erm , did something wrong again , I do n't remember whether it touched it , probably nothing crazy again . |
| 10 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 11 | How could we decide whether it had free will or was just a robot , programmed to respond as if it were like us ? |
| 12 | She could not tell whether it had been a matter of minutes or several hours . |
| 13 | So far did the experience lie beyond the normal province of time , she could not later tell whether it lasted for moments only or extended into hours . |
| 14 | Lilly will not say whether it found a conflict in the evidence for accumulation it presented to CSM on 7 October 1981 . |