Example sentences of "wondered [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She will entertain us every evening after supper , ’ said Goibniu and Floy nearly abandoned the entire thing there and then , because there had been something so meaningful in the way that Goibniu had said entertain that he wondered how they could ever have considered leaving her here alone . |
| 2 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 3 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 4 | Miranda fleetingly wondered how she could ever have thought that Adam had a withholding , guarded nature . |
| 5 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 6 | His eyes shone with mischief , and she wondered how she could ever have thought him boring . |
| 7 | However , it gave her no carnal pleasure , and she wondered how it could ever be associated with erotic games . |
| 8 | I remembered that they had been there all along , and wondered how I could ever have forgotten them . |
| 9 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 10 | Sarah had told her that John had always argued with his father and defied him , and she wondered why he could ever have behaved like that with this gentle man . |
| 11 | And Dot considered her pigeon-hearted father and wondered why she could never recall his face . |
| 12 | I wondered when she would ever return to Dublin — I presume that 's why you 're here . " |