Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've received a letter and I do n't know whether to show it to the police . |
| 2 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 3 | On one occasion , when George Brown was to give a seminal broadcast on a new financial plan , Wigg , who had been assigned by the Prime Minister to ensure , or to endeavour to ensure , that Brown arrived at Broadcasting House respectably sober , could think of nothing better to do than to consign him in the early afternoon to the sitting-room in my flat at Ashley Gardens . |
| 4 | In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence . |
| 5 | If in fact where they decide whether to pass it on the . |
| 6 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 7 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |