Example sentences of "[vb past] whether we " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not inundated with offers for the company from the private sector and our financial advisers doubted whether we could sell the business at all . |
| 2 | However , Maxine informed me that her mother had always described how she had screamed when being bathed as a tiny baby , so she doubted whether we would be able to find a specific incident which could have caused the onset of the phobia . |
| 3 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 4 | I did n't want to put the new stuff on top of the old until er knew whether we 'd finished or not , yes I think I 'll have to open it |
| 5 | parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature |
| 6 | When we met in June 1993 we debated whether we should keep everything . |
| 7 | queried whether we really needed to be in it and I told him that sales wanted it and the reasons why we wanted to be in erm even the fact that it was going to k erm give us more accounting work erm whatsisname what bank is it ? |
| 8 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 9 | I asked whether we should work together or whether we should fight … it will be your decision , Holly . |
| 10 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 11 | At the tiny station of Plowden an angry old woman asked whether we had permission to park our car in the yard , so I did n't add to her troubles by asking for a ticket to Ludlow , as I had intended , but drove on to Marshbrook where the porter was more kindly . ’ |
| 12 | Those , like me , who championed the News Network asked whether we could afford to lose one and a half million new listeners . |
| 13 | Those , like me , who championed the News Network asked whether we could afford to lose one-and-a-half million new listeners . |
| 14 | Leading Comrade Wong wanted to know the weaknesses of the Chinese English students , and we said they were really very good ( which they are ) , and he asked whether we had any dissatisfactions or criticisms , and we said we did n't , which seemed almost to crestfall him , as it seems part of the Chinese way of life that criticisms should be exchanged . |
| 15 | A student of mine who saw the Hollywood film Witness , which featured the Amish community , wondered whether we should think of their way of life not as a residue of the past but the way of the future ! |
| 16 | Then , years later , when he bought his own table ( and a house big enough to put it in ) , and we started playing regularly , almost weekly , we wondered whether we should go on playing for money . |
| 17 | I wondered whether we should salute . |
| 18 | Yes , I just wondered whether we 've got a problem or not ? |
| 19 | If I recall er when that er the King Street car park was given to the town by the benefactors we did want entrance er at the top end of the car park for the people who shopped which saved a lot of people coming round that dangerous corner where you know we 've had one fatal accident there , and I just wondered whether we should take this under the umbrella while er we 're actually discussing it . |
| 20 | Wh while you 're on that madam chairman , I 've had two persons er contact me as regarding , you know playing field and er it 's a no go for dogs is n't it , and th and we therefore the people have mentioned they had to go down the side of the playing field onto the onto the old , and er have we an obligation to er to pave not pave it but er make it , it 's a very steep bank , a very steep old ladies dare n't go down , and they know they 're breaking the law by taking the dog in the in the er recreation ground , and I just wondered whether we had an obligation to er . |
| 21 | I just wondered whether we 've actually met the requirements of the , of the act . |
| 22 | Er , the honourable gentleman wondered whether we would ever have a truncated view again , certainly not under the ninety three legislation because that was a once off as a careful reading of the act will show , er but er we will erm and his honourable friend , the member for Perry Barns hoped er that er we would have no more reviews of European boundaries , I know because he was talking at P R but we will certainly have one new review of er er Euro constituency boundaries because as soon as the parliamentary boundaries are completed er we will have to go into a new review on that basis of all the European seats and of course the full enquiries will be held in the normal way for them . |
| 23 | The flight was very bumpy indeed , and we really wondered whether we would make it to Chengchow , where we had to make a half-hour stop before continuing our journey . |
| 24 | We wondered whether we could possibly sell Japanese lyrics translated into Swedish – and we did . |