Example sentences of "wondered [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered if they 'd ever find husbands or boyfriends who would take them on such a holiday as this and rather doubted it . |
| 2 | Ken Clarke , having listened to one of our more heated exchanges , wondered if we would ever speak to each other again . |
| 3 | The house seemed quite grand but we only stayed one night as the following afternoon we entrained for Preston , a journey that took so long , I wondered if we would ever arrive . |
| 4 | And he wondered if he would ever discover them . |
| 5 | So Creggan became interested in the Sweeper , and wondered if he would ever come up to his cage and say something , in the way Men did . |
| 6 | Roe admits that in his quieter moments he sometimes wondered if he would ever win a second tournament and those doubts were intensified earlier this season when he saw both the Jersey Open and the Murphy 's English Open wrested from his grasp . |
| 7 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 8 | He wondered if she would ever regret it , and thought not . |
| 9 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 10 | Now those roses reminded her of Gerry , who had pasted them there , and she wondered if she would ever find the courage to scrape them off . |
| 11 | He wondered if she would indeed try to seduce him . |
| 12 | But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to . |
| 13 | For a moment I wondered if she 'd fully come round from the carbon monoxide . |
| 14 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 15 | Perhaps she wondered if she 'd ever get out . ’ |
| 16 | Ellen wondered if she should perhaps look for a replacement , but put it off . |
| 17 | I thought of Fringe and the Downs and wondered if I would ever ride in a race , and I thought of Ronnie Curzon and publishers and American rights and of Erica Upton 's reviews and it all seemed as distant as Ursa Major but not one whit as essential to my continued existence . |
| 18 | I wondered if I would ever see them again and silently said goodbye . |
| 19 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 20 | It was growing dark as I walked down the pier alone , his jacket draped over my shoulders , and I wondered if I should really look for Wilde at all . |
| 21 | I wondered if I should ever see them again . |
| 22 | It was much too big and I wondered if I should always have to wear these clothes . |
| 23 | I have not heard back from you since then , and I wondered if you could please confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 24 | I wondered if you could possibly spare us a moment of your time tomorrow ? |
| 25 | Er , the honourable gentleman wondered whether we would ever have a truncated view again , certainly not under the ninety three legislation because that was a once off as a careful reading of the act will show , er but er we will erm and his honourable friend , the member for Perry Barns hoped er that er we would have no more reviews of European boundaries , I know because he was talking at P R but we will certainly have one new review of er er Euro constituency boundaries because as soon as the parliamentary boundaries are completed er we will have to go into a new review on that basis of all the European seats and of course the full enquiries will be held in the normal way for them . |
| 26 | We wondered whether we could possibly sell Japanese lyrics translated into Swedish – and we did . |
| 27 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |
| 28 | I wondered whether you 'd ever get it or not , come on quick quick . |
| 29 | Robyn wondered whether he 'd simply put the receiver down without her realising and walked away . |
| 30 | At times , she was downhearted and wondered whether she would ever write another book . |