Example sentences of "[coord] wondered [Wh adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , she dabbed her handkerchief at her eye , ate a soft-centred peppermint and wondered where her son had gone . |
| 2 | He noticed the square was completely deserted and wondered where everyone was . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She wished that she could rely on him and wondered where she had acquired such unrealistic expectations . |
| 5 | Hyacinth thought Anne Heseltine was very dishy and wondered where she had her hair done . |
| 6 | As the weeks passed , far from forgetting our brief time together , I realized how much I missed Eric and wondered where he was and what he was doing . |
| 7 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 8 | Corbett rubbed his eyes wearily and wondered when he would rest from this interminable business , who the attackers of yesterday were and , more importantly , who had paid them ? |
| 9 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 10 | Gabriel blushed and wondered why everyone was looking at him . |
| 11 | The entrepreneurial Elizabeth Taylor ( no relation ) read an article about organic markets in France , les Marches Biologiques , and wondered why we did n't have any here . |
| 12 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 13 | Anna opened her eyes and wondered why they were fussing round her . |
| 14 | and wondered why they did n't open . |
| 15 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 16 | I bought a Moses basket ( quite rare at that time ) for my baby , and wondered why my room mate was not so enthusiastic . |
| 17 | ‘ I really am sorry , ’ he repeated and wondered why it was that these lunches , designed as an escape from responsibility , had begun to weigh on him with the weariness of marriage itself . |
| 18 | She watched his heavy dark face and wondered why it looked rueful . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't think I am going to wear that trash , do you ? ’ she had said when the great day came ; and wondered why he had ‘ got into one of his passionate tempers ’ ( poor little disappointed boy ! ) |
| 20 | Smith obviously assumed that someone as badly dressed as himself could not possible be in a group and wondered why he was in the dressing room . |
| 21 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 22 | Meredith watched the struggle on the man 's face as he tried to control his wayward mouth , and wondered why he did n't want to grin when he was so obviously amused by her cheek . |
| 23 | He stared out of his constricting net of anxieties and fears at this clean , smooth , well-intentioned boy , and wondered why he should be expected to make the effort to answer him at all . |
| 24 | And Dot considered her pigeon-hearted father and wondered why she could never recall his face . |
| 25 | Vi looked around the kitchen and wondered why she had scrubbed the floor and cleaned the window . |
| 26 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 27 | Liz thought he looked appalling , and wondered why she had n't noticed it before . |
| 28 | And wondered why she made such fatuous comments and why he did n't appear to notice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Davis watched this display in terror and wondered why his men had stopped shooting . |