Example sentences of "it be [art] wonder [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a wonder they did n't get er suffocated some of the kids then in them days . |
| 2 | they used to pour it out of a can you know , it 's a wonder we did n't all die of tuberculosis but we did n't . |
| 3 | Pretty deep there ; it 's a wonder it did n't slice the top of his head off . |
| 4 | It 's a wonder I did n't kill Benjamin but , when I opened my eyes , two of the rogues were dead of huge gashes between shoulder and neck whilst Benjamin was on the point of driving his sword straight through the breast of a third . |
| 5 | It 's a wonder I survived . ’ |
| 6 | It 's a wonder you did n't blow the whole place up . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a wonder you did n't wear lipstick to Gran 's funeral . ’ |
| 8 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 9 | It 's a wonder you did n't wake the baby up with the noise you 're flipping making . |
| 10 | It 's a wonder you did n't . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a wonder he did n't go mad . |
| 12 | Though it 's a wonder she did not spot the writing on the wall . |
| 13 | Yeah , I know One pair of those tights were seven ninety nine , it 's no wonder I thought they were nice when I looked at them . |
| 14 | The so-called ‘ fourth generation ’ were caught in the middle and it is no wonder they suffered from a ‘ clash in values ’ described in a number of articles discussing youth ‘ problems ’ . |
| 15 | It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about . |
| 16 | It was a wonder they had not all mauled each other to death long ago and left the damp , chilly coastline unpeopled except for howling birds . |
| 17 | It was a wonder they had n't been buried under it , and their injuries correspondingly worse . |
| 18 | After a few months of this kind of thing , it was a wonder we did n't automatically walk out of our homes every hour , on the hour , when we were on leave , to look at the weather . |
| 19 | The state Karen was in , it was a wonder she knew who her own feet belonged to , never mind anyone else 's . |
| 20 | It was a wonder she had not grown fat . |
| 21 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 22 | It was a wonder she had n't paid the part time gardener extra cash to do it foe her ; perhaps the money in the joint account had run out . |