Example sentences of "wondered how [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She will entertain us every evening after supper , ’ said Goibniu and Floy nearly abandoned the entire thing there and then , because there had been something so meaningful in the way that Goibniu had said entertain that he wondered how they could ever have considered leaving her here alone . |
| 2 | The kitchen seemed dark and cheerless and Hari wondered how she could go on living and working in a house that held so many memories . |
| 3 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 4 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 5 | She wondered how she could explain this to him if he did n't see it already . |
| 6 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 7 | This Scarlet had done , and now she wondered how she could have : maybe you became more squeamish the further away you grew from the experience of childbirth . |
| 8 | The Doctor began to speak , in a voice so quiet Piper wondered how she could hear his words above the storm . |
| 9 | Tess wondered how she could help her parents . |
| 10 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 11 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 12 | Recollecting his churlish behaviour , Isabel wondered how she could be attracted to such a man even for a moment . |
| 13 | She wondered how she could fill in some of the gaps . |
| 14 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 15 | He could see them himself , for that matter , but he wondered how she could . |
| 16 | Sometimes a bale of cloth went and you wondered how it could get past the Dock gate . |
| 17 | She found it perplexing and wondered how it could have affected her lessons with Miss Hatherby . |
| 18 | However , it gave her no carnal pleasure , and she wondered how it could ever be associated with erotic games . |
| 19 | I wondered how it could be that I was going to marry Syl . |
| 20 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |
| 21 | During it all , Charles wondered how he could put his friend off such a highly improper plan as he had devised . |
| 22 | Standing at the counter waiting for the coffee , he wondered how he could have let it come about , and he felt a stranger to himself . |
| 23 | He wondered how he could get a word , alone , to warn her . |
| 24 | He wondered how he could have displeased the man as he 'd yet to perform for him . |
| 25 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 26 | Still , I wondered how anyone could find sitting for an artist boring . |
| 27 | Fowler looked at the tiny fields of black soil and wondered how anyone could scratch a living from them . |
| 28 | He turned back to the frying-pan , and she wondered how anyone could make her hackles rise with so few words . |