Example sentences of "wonder [Wh adv] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were many times when I wondered why I had agreed to research and write this book — it was anything but straightforward — more like doing a jig-saw puzzle without seeing the picture . |
| 32 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 33 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 34 | He gave her a strange look , and she wondered why he had called her Sarella Vila if he 'd already forgotten about Peter . |
| 35 | He wondered why he had felt it important to speak Harry 's name . |
| 36 | I wondered why he had said that , and I understood . |
| 37 | Sometimes Nigel wondered why he had got married . |
| 38 | Twoflower wondered why he had thought of the phrase ‘ a sliver of a scream ’ … and began to wish he had n't . |
| 39 | He wondered why he had considered having recourse to a public library when he had a much simpler means to hand of identifying the house in the newspaper paragraph . |
| 40 | He wondered why she had turned against him after cooking him such a nice meal and being so kind to him while Smallfry was away . |
| 41 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |
| 44 | He wondered why she had told him all this . |
| 45 | Vi looked around the kitchen and wondered why she had scrubbed the floor and cleaned the window . |
| 46 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 47 | I wondered where it had got to . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I wondered where you had got to . ’ |
| 49 | She wished that she could rely on him and wondered where she had acquired such unrealistic expectations . |
| 50 | Patrick squirmed beneath his mother 's scrutiny , her gaze was direct and unblinking — like a snake , he realised , and he wondered where she had perfected that trait . |
| 51 | 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 . |