Example sentences of "wondered whether " in BNC.

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1 She wondered whether she would find enough to discuss with a stranger to fill the evening .
2 She wondered whether to say that she had missed him .
3 Later in life he wondered whether it was the blessing that it seemed .
4 He wondered whether , before ordination , he should stay at Cambridge a little longer to do more advanced work .
5 He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's .
6 In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion .
7 Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world .
8 He attended a meeting at Lund in Sweden in 1952 and thought the atmosphere happy but the meeting useless and wondered whether the day of such occasions was not past .
9 Afterwards he wondered whether he visited parishes less often than his predecessor and took the trouble to work it out .
10 Tony was equally amused at the story , and wondered whether there was a third group , too , of ‘ FRIENDS ’ with a big ‘ F ’ , big ‘ R ’ , big ‘ I ’ and big ‘ ENDS ’ .
11 I casually wondered whether this meant 50 tins of Pedigree Chum and then ambled off after Tony who was being shown the Arctic Ocean by Nathan .
12 A prominent man , Friends — Russians in other words — and so skilled men , wallpaper , paint , gold leaf — and fine linen instantly available ; she smiled as she wondered whether Bodo had had a hand in it .
13 I do n't mind sharing the view , there were moments when I wondered whether it could actually be done . ’
14 Since this line of flight would take them straight to the pioneer party of 200-300 already assembled on the traditional Witney site , I wondered whether this was their destination .
15 He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off .
16 She wondered whether he had any other clothes !
17 He wondered whether to call the invitation dinner or supper .
18 He wondered whether Simon had found his knife or got hold of another one .
19 Mungo remembered the old superstition that seagulls were the souls of dead sailors , and wondered whether these magnificent birds might be the spirits of lost travellers , doomed forever to haunt the scene of their disappearance .
20 Mungo wondered whether she had been one of the girls who was ‘ sweet ’ on Jos .
21 Recovering slightly from the terror of a moment ago , he wondered whether he dared pick up the skull .
22 He wondered whether the sad white victim was still lying in the sodden grass by the lake , or whether someone had taken pity and buried it .
23 Mungo wondered whether he should deny thinking that , but knew it would sound like sucking up .
24 She said that as though she wondered whether it was the correct thing to say .
25 SHe wondered whether , other than through the blunder in Malamute 's office .
26 SHe wondered whether SHe 'd been missed from Club Eleusis yet .
27 Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur .
28 She wondered whether she should have had Ari dress in a bath-robe or something .
29 He wondered whether he 'd said something unwise again .
30 She wondered whether Ari had noticed that and resented it .
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