Example sentences of "wondered [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered which had come first , the chill and disenchantment of her worldly sophistication , or the lack of warmth in her son : and perhaps there was ice in both of them , and the one had reinforced the other . |
| 2 | She wondered what made him think she desired a flogging . |
| 3 | He wondered what made her laugh . |
| 4 | ‘ They were beautiful — I just wondered what made you choose those in particular . |
| 5 | I always wondered what made the big difference between the last rates bill for Brent and the present arrangements ; now I understand that it was the £140 reduction . |
| 6 | He heard the slurring and wondered what caused it . |
| 7 | Dauntless wondered what went on in her head . |
| 8 | He wondered what reduced someone to that state , the Lowry figures who mingled with the punks and skinheads . |
| 9 | Always wondered what brought her back to the miseries of soggy grey England , the endless winters . |
| 10 | After a wash and shave , then breakfast — a roll containing a fried egg washed down with one more mug of cocoa — I wondered what had happened to his tea rations . |
| 11 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 12 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 13 | Zambia wondered what had happened to change him so much . |
| 14 | A stunned nation watched the coffins brought home and wondered what had been achieved . |
| 15 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
| 16 | He wondered what had brought Corbett north ; he had tried to find out all the way to Tynemouth but Corbett remained taciturn , so Ranulf became sullen . |
| 17 | Shocked , she stared disbelievingly at the receding back of Doctor Anderson , and wondered what had been contained in the message that had made a member of the staff drop everything in such an unprofessional way . |
| 18 | She wondered what had kept him . |
| 19 | ‘ All weekend I wondered what had happened . |
| 20 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 21 | his head was pounding and he vaguely wondered what time it was and as he began to unlock the door he wondered what had brought Patrick back . |
| 22 | There were numerous gaps in the bookcase at the end of the room , and Lee wondered what had happened to Madam Lundy 's collection of books . |
| 23 | Disappointed , Clare wondered what had gone wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ People always wondered what had happened to you . |
| 25 | I wondered what had brought this on , and how to peel Aunt Janice off . |
| 26 | The woman detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her at Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | He wondered what had happened to handsome Georgie , the boy he was supposed to be meeting at the pub on the night of the murder . |
| 28 | I did the rest of my round in a state of gloom and at lunch I was still so preoccupied that I wondered what had happened when Tristan served the meal . |
| 29 | While she worked she wondered what had really been wrong with William . |
| 30 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |