Example sentences of "whether he should [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice .
2 However that may be , it is essential that he should be served promptly so that he is able to consider whether he should exercise his right of appeal .
3 for one pound and unfortunately as he the option of the contract and on a number of occasions question whether he should exercise the option .
4 Robert wondered whether he should stage a more spectacular form of nervous breakdown .
5 He went into retreat and , says Walton , ‘ had many conflicts with himself , whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a court-life or betake himself to a study of divinity and enter into Sacred Orders , to which his dear mother had often persuaded him ’ .
6 When his father raised the question of who should inherit the estate after him , and whether he should choose ‘ heirs general ’ , that is to say , include females in the vexed question — in an earlier generation , four sisters had been passed over in favour of a Boswell nephew — Boswell consulted Johnson repeatedly , before the matter was resolved to Boswell 's general satisfaction .
7 The OFT will advise the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on whether he should refer the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission .
8 Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law .
9 Presenter Esther Rantzen , commenting yesterday , said : ‘ One has to ask whether he should continue to try such cases . ’
10 As John Major contemplates on the way to Washington whether he should give support to the US plan , he should bear the following in mind .
11 He speculated whether he should speak to the friar , open his heart , tell him his secrets , get rid of the sea of misery he felt bathing his body , drowning his mind .
12 So the next morning he went to the train station and thought whether he should pay the fare or not to go to London .
13 He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 .
14 Nathan was n't quite sure whether he should skulk away or knock and ask to come in .
15 And , and er he wondered about whether he should go up to Klondike or not .
16 dissenting ) held that the evidence established that the father had subsequently acquiesced in the wrongful removal or retention of the children in this country by the mother , and ordered that the case should be remitted to a judge of the High Court for consideration of the exercise of the discretion which accordingly arose under article 13 as to whether he should decline to order that they be returned to the jurisdiction of the Australian court .
17 For a moment Zen wondered whether he should tell Bartocci about the photocopy of Ruggiero 's letter .
18 Athelstan wondered whether he should eat a hasty evening meal and go back across the city and make his peace .
19 whether he should kiss Rose , the wife of the man he is on his way to see , when she opens the front door to him ;
20 whether he should kiss Rose when he arrives ;
21 Then a businessman asked whether he should buy this and that stock his broker had recommended on the sly , and — after a moment of concentration — Kruger gave him the word to hold off , presumably making a mental note to sweep the market himself .
22 He wondered whether he should have taken up farming instead of cooking .
23 If Mr X believes he can produce a better automobile , and is willing to risk his funds , he can start producing them ; he may or may not succeed , but the decision about whether he should have the opportunity to produce them is personal .
24 He was beginning to find the sex interesting , and had already started to wonder whether he should try to make her position permanent .
25 whether he will be invited to lunch , and if not , whether he should get a sandwich in a pub instead , and if so , whether he would prefer egg and tomato , or cheese and chutney ;
26 He knew it was a person 's natal chart that decreed whether he should become an Ixmaritian , and where he would be educated .
27 ‘ They 're on to us , ’ he groaned , wondering whether he should put his foot down on the accelerator instead .
28 Because of the ‘ unconvincing nature ’ of the compromise , he could not make up his mind whether he should apply for membership .
29 This time , however , there was no market to go to , and certainly no choice as to whether he should select a Cox 's or a Granny Smith for breakfast .
30 Indeed , I have made her immortal : my old friend Will Shakespeare wrote a play about a Danish prince called Hamlet who moons about the stage wondering whether he should kill his murderous mother .
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