Example sentences of "[pron] wondered [Wh adv] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wondered when we 'd come to her , ’ Harry put in . |
| 2 | I wondered when we 'd get round to that . |
| 3 | ‘ I wondered when we 'd get round to that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I wondered when you would come ? ’ he called , not bothering to turn . |
| 5 | ‘ I wondered when you 'd turn up . |
| 6 | " I wondered when you 'd be coming back for your things . |
| 7 | I wondered when you 'd say that Helena , with your little bit of wisdom |
| 8 | I wondered when she would ever return to Dublin — I presume that 's why you 're here . " |
| 9 | Looking around our tiny sitting room , I wondered where we would put the furniture . |
| 10 | He was growing feistier and spryer by the month — I wondered where it would all end . |
| 11 | Afterwards I wondered where he might go best in the current formation : the 3 midfielders are all attack-oriented , which Batty is n't , and Fairclough is doing okay in front of the defence . |
| 12 | I wondered where she would keep these papers . |
| 13 | I wondered why he should bother to try and establish contact with me . |
| 14 | I wondered how they would take to steak and kidney pudding , oxtail soup , and plum duff . |
| 15 | I wondered how they would arrange my visa for Riga , but I did n't ask . |
| 16 | I wondered how it could be that I was going to marry Syl . |
| 17 | I wondered how she would settle down in the United States when she and Hank did get married . |
| 18 | ‘ I said I wondered how she would feel when she knows her own sister is having a relationship with the man who left her … |
| 19 | At the age of nine I wondered how I would handle my eventual initiation to the back row seating . |
| 20 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 21 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 22 | I wondered how I should broach this subject but as it happened , Dame Edna opened her heart . |
| 23 | We were almost there and I wondered how he would behave when he was face-to-face with Gómez , what he would say . |
| 24 | Sometimes a bale of cloth went and you wondered how it could get past the Dock gate . |
| 25 | She wondered when it would be safe to steer the conversation back to Veronica . |
| 26 | Adam was talking to a man she vaguely recognised as a financier of some sort , and she wondered when it might be possible to leave without appearing rude . |
| 27 | As he ran upstairs she wondered why she should be so pleased he had come , he would only want to dredge up information to help in the murder case . |
| 28 | Unfamiliar as she was with the niceties of English social life , she wondered why she should be surprised . |
| 29 | Sarah had told her that John had always argued with his father and defied him , and she wondered why he could ever have behaved like that with this gentle man . |
| 30 | As she went along the hall , she wondered how she might persuade Maisie 's son to be a better person . |