Example sentences of "and wonder [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | One is forced to ask what OSF had to gain and wonders if it was n't some kind of supralegal manoeuvre to put pressure on Addamax and Sun because they 've got something on the OSF contingent . |
| 2 | He 'll never have to see himself day after day in a mirror and wonder if it was worth it because he 's blind , you see . |
| 3 | Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters . |
| 4 | He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't know , ’ said Dot and wondered if it was anything like princesses . |
| 6 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
| 7 | Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes . |
| 8 | Her eyes seemed to have changed , seeing the half-mortals like giants made of pure light ; she could feel a cold clear air in her face , and wondered if it was the wind in which they moved . |
| 9 | I opened his razor in the bathroom to rub the powered residue of his beard in my fingers , and wondered if it was still growing on his dead face . |
| 10 | Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well . |
| 11 | He found Aunt Tossie most agreeable , and wondered if it was true that she was very rich . |
| 12 | He could smell fish cooking and wondered if it was Faustina 's coley , then realised that in view of the conversation about the finest minced veal it was more likely to be something for themselves . |
| 13 | He was silent , but she could sense anger burning slowly inside him and wondered if it was directed at her . |
| 14 | I shivered and wondered if it was time for old Shallot to disappear or go ill with ague , but I remembered my promise . |