Example sentences of "were wondering [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew they were wondering why there was n't anyone with him . |
| 2 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 3 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 4 | And perhaps lots of people were wondering why they were n't having this good time . |
| 5 | When the people in Northern Ireland were listening to these matters on the radio , they were wondering why a statement was to be made . |
| 6 | They were wondering where she was at that very moment . |
| 7 | From their expressions , they were wondering where all the grass had gone as well . |
| 8 | No doubt his fellow cadets were wondering similarly . |
| 9 | And myself and my partners were wondering really what you were doing … |
| 10 | You were wondering how long we 'd been lovers . |
| 11 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 12 | She said she would like to hear from members of the central community council who were wondering how their opinions could be put forward ‘ now that the local Labour Party has denied them a voice ’ . |