Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] whether " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was just debating whether it was a shade pompous to refer to himself as ‘ I rather than ‘ me ’ when young Harbour , the juvenile lead , tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 2 | He was just meditating whether he could risk running straight in through the kitchen door when he saw two of the firemen in masks , doing just that . |
| 3 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 4 | He was also considering whether the code of practice which governs the quality of connections between private lines and the public phone network should be advisory rather than mandatory . |
| 5 | Instead of being asked , as he must have hoped , whether he would be willing to form a government , he was instead asked whether he would be prepared to serve in a National Government under MacDonald . |
| 6 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 7 | Bludworth stated that he was still considering whether to bring similar charges against NBC News and the New York Times which also disclosed the name of the woman . |
| 8 | 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 . |