Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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31 Taking another glass of champagne , he wondered if he had really managed to convey all that .
32 He looked drawn now , Ruth thought , and wondered if he had ever given her a thought since Seville .
33 She wondered if he had ever brought Suzanne Regan here and found it more than usually difficult to wipe the thought from her mind .
34 The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand .
35 The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand .
36 It was still hard to tell whether he had actually cottoned on to what the name was .
37 Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp .
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