Example sentences of "[conj] wonder [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's no use me doing nothing now and wondering why we 've got a problem in March . ’ |
| 2 | She wished that she could rely on him and wondered where she had acquired such unrealistic expectations . |
| 3 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 4 | Vi looked around the kitchen and wondered why she had scrubbed the floor and cleaned the window . |
| 5 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 6 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 7 | He looked about him as he made his way through , horrified by the squalor , the ugliness of everything he saw , and wondered how he had stood it . |
| 8 | Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long . |