Example sentences of "whether [pers pn] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I invite you all to come to my house to see her , and to judge whether I had the right to ask this innocent young girl to marry me . |
| 2 | As she stood and contemplated the deep , rushing waters , she wondered whether she had the strength to push him in and be rid of him for ever . |
| 3 | She was a quiet , gentle soul , she had no malice in her , but I doubt whether she had the smallest capacity for taking care of other people . |
| 4 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 5 | Rain wondered whether she had the cheek to install her in the Antibes flat borrowed from her newspaper colleague . |
| 6 | ‘ Initially everyone was extremely co-operative , but soon we were n't sure whether we had the backing of our district council . |
| 7 | Examples were given of regular meetings or occasions which enabled workers to identify and keep track of people in the community , regardless of whether they had the status of an active case . |
| 8 | The Greek authorities made no effort , indeed it is not known whether they had the legal authority , to allow the post mortem examination to take place before the body was released , despite the scarcity of important evidence in a case of this kind . |
| 9 | Like the old CEB , the new Central Authority bombarded Smith and the Cabinet 's Investment Programmes Committee with a barrage of complaints against cuts in their forward programmes , but Smith seriously doubted whether they had the capacity to implement the large programmes implied by new requests for men and materials . |
| 10 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 11 | An unusually detailed account survives of the fortunes of the ancient and revered Benedictine abbey of Evesham in Worcestershire in a case against their local bishop , the bishop of Worcester , as to his jurisdictional rights over them and whether he had the right to inspect them . |
| 12 | Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not . |
| 13 | I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ? |