Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the advert that 's gone in I did wonder whether to put please respond by such and such a date ? |
| 2 | Before the event , I had debated whether to bring my director to the event , to reinforce the quality image of the Association which he in effect supports by sponsoring me . |
| 3 | I have to decide whether to put in my poems and short stories and a series of LETTERS , originally called LETTERS TO x ( some 180 very short letters written in three days in about two years ago ) rather in the writing style of the legendary DEAR ABBIE written in the 1920s ( or 30s ? you are bound to know ! ) by Dane Chandos . |
| 4 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |
| 5 | The radio keeps telling you that the eye of the hurricane is here or there , getting near anyway , and you try to figure whether to leave the windows open a crack or tape them and you remember that the highest point of Key West is only 16 feet above sea level , and how the great hurricane of 1936 caught a train half way up the Keys filled with refugees from Key West and drowned them all , and you can get nervous . |
| 6 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 7 | When it is apparent that external circumstances have changed , you have to decide whether to cry chicken and run too early , or continue to reinforce and spend time , money and ever increasing numbers of your best people , who are invariably sucked into the most difficult areas of the battle , trying to fight a war which you can not win . |
| 8 | He could have stopped the trial and we had discussed whether to apply for a stay of prosecution , but once I was in the fight I wanted to carry on , whatever the consequences . ’ |
| 9 | Having reached the end of the second sentence , we have to decide whether to repeat what we have already written , or introduce something new as a contrast or relief . |
| 10 | We need to decide whether to put in a writ or what . ’ |
| 11 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 12 | After the Fleischmann and Pons press conference in 1989 Jones recalled this early achievement of ‘ breakeven ’ in muon catalysed fusion and joked that they had wondered whether to call a press conference in 1982 and announce that energy output from fusion had been accomplished . |
| 13 | It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice . |
| 14 | To oblige them to belong to a national group was as likely to imprison them in an identity from which they wanted to escape as to liberate them . |
| 15 | Instead , he renewed it for a year ; by June 3rd he has to decide whether to do so again . |
| 16 | He can do nothing , though , because the stuffing is coming out of the armchair he is sitting in , and before anything else can happen he has to decide whether to get it re-covered or buy a new one . |
| 17 | He has struggled since to meet the £3,500 monthly loan repayments and works 15 hours a day with his team of four in Aston , Birmingham . |
| 18 | He refuses to elaborate except to add that ‘ it was rough-housing all the way ’ . |
| 19 | Her deafness became evident at the age of 12 while she was attending a school run by a Reverend Perry , when she found that she could not hear very well if she sat too far from the teacher , and by the time she was 16 , it had worsened as to become very noticeable and inconvenient to herself . |
| 20 | He had to choose whether to grasp power at every opportunity or to love others and to trust in God . |