Example sentences of "wondered whether [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wh while you 're on that madam chairman , I 've had two persons er contact me as regarding , you know playing field and er it 's a no go for dogs is n't it , and th and we therefore the people have mentioned they had to go down the side of the playing field onto the onto the old , and er have we an obligation to er to pave not pave it but er make it , it 's a very steep bank , a very steep old ladies dare n't go down , and they know they 're breaking the law by taking the dog in the in the er recreation ground , and I just wondered whether we had an obligation to er . |
| 2 | He wondered whether they knew about the baby . |
| 3 | Celia wondered whether they had reached an impasse , whether Dr Shalcross was secretly horrified at her although , she reflected , psychotherapists were never horrified , were they ? |
| 4 | Peter wondered whether they had secrets , whether they lived much of their lives in private worlds . |
| 5 | And in his silence , in that tooting impatient traffic-jam , for the first time he wondered whether they had been killed . |
| 6 | At first , they wondered whether they had made contact with an alien civilization ; indeed , I remember that the seminar room in which they announced their discovery was decorated with figures of ‘ little green men . ’ |
| 7 | He wondered whether they would see the Tree Spirits and then he wondered whether they wanted to see them . |
| 8 | well yes , yes I wondered whether I 'd got it right you know , it sounded just a silly thing to ask and erm and I erm had to consider that probably asked whether I had erm made a mistake in my shorthand before , before I actually typed it but erm , anyway they seemed erm reasonably satisfied and everybody was very kindly and erm considerate and |
| 9 | I wondered whether I had slipped out of her consciousness . |
| 10 | I wondered whether I had said something that I could n't remember , perhaps had shrieked or whispered that I would n't go back , but Lili said she had heard it was unusually hot for the time of year and unsuitable for a run-down person . |
| 11 | Oh round there just wondered whether you wanted to keep a bit of tape for Vicky . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly and not for the first time , trade union leaders wondered whether it had become impossible to mount a legal strike . |
| 13 | couple of weeks back she got a throat infection , I just wondered whether it had come back . |
| 14 | I wondered whether it had been his bright idea that sent them there . |
| 15 | From his visit to the Burgers , Wycliffe had learned something about art , more about the art trade , and a good deal about Edwin Garland , but he wondered whether it had brought him any closer to establishing a motive for the murder of Francis . |
| 16 | I wondered whether it had . |
| 17 | Eyeing the police car , she wondered whether it belonged to Officer Hassan and whether it was worth hanging around for a word with him . |
| 18 | I wondered whether he eschewed beautiful women because he feared competition from them , or from other men . |
| 19 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |
| 20 | She wondered whether he had any other clothes ! |
| 21 | He wondered whether he had found it . |
| 22 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 23 | She wondered whether he had mentioned it to the Inspector privately . |
| 24 | From time to time he wondered whether he had made a mistake in sleeping with her . |
| 25 | We wondered whether he had forgotten his lines but soon learned to let it go , rather than stop the recording . |
| 26 | He wondered whether he had made a mistake in sending the terrorist away . |
| 27 | Cornelius wondered whether he had stumbled into the rehearsal for some fringe event of the now legendary Edinburgh Festival . |
| 28 | Shelley closed the filing cabinet and the desk , and wondered whether he had forgotten her . |
| 29 | He wondered whether he 'd said something unwise again . |
| 30 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |