Example sentences of "wonder [subord] [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 2 | Jannie smiled at him , wondering if he could even remember how old they were . |
| 3 | ‘ You promised Dana not to tell me something , ’ she said , wondering if he could actually hear her heart breaking . |
| 4 | ‘ Er — I was wondering if you could just come and help me for a moment ? ’ |
| 5 | So I 'm wondering if you could possibly lend a hand . ’ |
| 6 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 7 | I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ? |
| 8 | I wonder if we could just consider the question of what is meant by the term general location . |
| 9 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 10 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
| 11 | I wonder if I could just pop over . |
| 12 | I wonder if I could just raise an issue on item two three D on page four referring to horse riding because there is a concern about a , a lot of walkers , that horse riding on footpaths creates problems for them erm in , in terms of chewing up the path in , in such a way that they 're difficult to walk on , people even wearing boots . |
| 13 | I wonder if I could just take a step back in conclusion and ask you a couple of rather broader questions , more general questions . |
| 14 | Erm Erm erm I wonder if you could just explain to us as to Manchester public in general , benefits of subsidiarity |
| 15 | I wonder if you could just explain the consistent parts of that figure ? |
| 16 | Erm perhaps I could would it , I wonder if you could just expand on stealth exactly what the er |
| 17 | I wonder if you could possibly give me the address of the ‘ Dogs for the Disabled ’ charity , as I would like to send a donation but do n't know where to send it . |
| 18 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 19 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 20 | She got up , went over to their table with the half-smoked stub , and said in her best BBC voice : " Excuse me , but I wonder whether you could possibly let me have a light ? |
| 21 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 22 | I have not heard back from you since then , and I wondered if you could please confirm that you are still interested in receiving a copy of the tape ? |
| 23 | I wondered if you could possibly spare us a moment of your time tomorrow ? |
| 24 | We wondered whether we could possibly sell Japanese lyrics translated into Swedish – and we did . |
| 25 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |