Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 However , the basic concept of collecting and removing filth will not be affected , as any system which does not localise contaminants merely spreads them so think as to make the problem less obvious .
2 I even wondered whether to make him into soup or pâté . ’
3 I never know whether to take you at your word , Lavinia .
4 I never I never knew whether to say anything
5 It usually takes you longer to decide whether to do either A or B than just how to do A. All I have to think of is how to do A.
6 Well , you do n't need all that , if you 're talking to the public , you 're telling what are basically the facts , and , if asked for your opinion on them , you then decide whether to give your opinion or to say , ‘ Well , no , that 's beyond , that 's beyond my brief . ’
7 the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line .
8 He just considering whether to shorten sail when the foresheet , which had been under considerable strain and was rubbing back and forth against the port gunwale , parted .
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