Example sentences of "[pron] wonder [Wh adv] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 2 | Now that some insurance companies are acknowledging the competence of some women drivers by reducing the premium they have to pay , I wonder how long it will be before car salesmen acknowledge the intelligence of women drivers ? |
| 3 | ‘ Yes it is , my love , but I wonder how long it 'll last ? |
| 4 | I wonder how long it will be before we take that train again ? |
| 5 | You said when we bought those bloody birds last Christmas , ‘ I wonder how long it 'll be before we 're yanking all this apart again and halving the furniture and carving up the doves . ’ |
| 6 | I wonder how long it will be before Australian graduates are required to take a test of English ? |
| 7 | I wonder how long it takes to burnt alive in a blazing Tornado ? |
| 8 | I wonder how long it will be before she gets tired of working there ? ’ |
| 9 | I wonder how long it takes them now to cut the roads . |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder how long it took for my message to get through to the patrol cars on the road , ’ Patrick said . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder how long it 's been since you visited that fine old building , Miss Williams ! |
| 12 | I wondered how easy it would be to hang yourself with your shoelaces . |
| 13 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before you young buggers came sniffing around , ’ he said , with a belly laugh , and looked at Yanto . |
| 14 | I wondered how long it would be before I saw England again . |
| 15 | I wondered how long it would be before I was doing the things portrayed in the photos . |
| 16 | I wondered how long it would be before I stopped loving him . |
| 17 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before the inquisition started up again . |
| 18 | ‘ No telephone calls accepted for residents — ’ I wondered how long it had taken him to break the habit of saying ‘ inmates ’ — ‘ during luncheon . ’ |
| 19 | I wondered how long it would take him , and whether Diggs would now have to go shouting through the town , warning that the mad boy who set fire to dogs was on the loose again ; lock up your hounds ! |
| 20 | ‘ You wondered how far it had gone ? ’ |
| 21 | The knot in her stomach tightened as she wondered how long it would be before the Cap'n discovered where Midnight was hiding . |
| 22 | She wondered how long it would be before Kathy grew alarmed If Clare was n't home and had n't telephoned by two o'clock — or three at the latest — she reckoned that Kathy might phone the police , who would surely find her before long . |
| 23 | Others besides the agency girl must have seen them leaving together ; she wondered how long it would take for the news to reach Pete . |
| 24 | She wondered how long it would be before Rebecca paid her nocturnal visit to the flat . |
| 25 | Tottenham 's dilemma was well chronicled last year , but one wonders how long it will be before they return to the same situation . |
| 26 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 27 | He wondered how long it would be before they gave up going to the clearing altogether . |
| 28 | He wondered how long it would take Lee to get up to the feeding-ground . |
| 29 | The skin , he noted , was still tinged golden — that faint tone which signified to those in the know that he had been subjected to the bi-annual treatment of Longivex , the Imperial longevity drug which , because of the rarity of the poppy from which it was produced , was restricted to the élite , the favoured few such as the royal family , the privileged , the very rich — and he frowned as he wondered how long it would be before the absence of the drug showed in his physique and appearance . |
| 30 | He wondered how long it would be before he saw them again , returning from space a rich man . |