Example sentences of "be [adv] wondering [conj] " in BNC.

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1 They did n't injure anyone that time — not physically , at any rate — but there must be mothers in Yorkshire who are still wondering if the babies were really sorted out correctly . ’
2 For instance , those who have missed some training , through injury , illness or lethargy , are probably wondering whether they have done enough .
3 MANY East Germans are now wondering whether opening the files has been the cleansing it was supposed to be .
4 MPs are now wondering if Mr Major can survive .
5 I 'm just wondering whether there 's any connection between your lawyers and the museum itself ?
6 I 'm just wondering whether one or two things that 's come down recently on discipline
7 And I 'm just wondering whether er the er point at nineteen ninety one is a correct v in view of the under-enumeration er in the census which is n't taken into account .
8 So I 'm just wondering whether this is a different variety and because it was two years ago , I three years ago now I think .
9 We 've got this erm , er , some one is going to monitor a proportion of work that you have recorded as transcripts anyway , and it will be a research director or A.D. I 'm just wondering whether we can comply with this now .
10 Twelve thou , you see , I 'm just wondering whether I should quote on a C I F basis which I can do you see , on the basis of , this if I add it up .
11 I 'm just wondering whether they were
12 yeah me too erm er this is , is a lot of school stuff in here , powder paints and paint , I 'm just wondering whether being a school might like it , oh I do n't know it 's empty , that 's empty , that 's empty , that 's empty , no
13 I 'm just wondering whether it 's E D or E S , to fight like this .
14 I 'm just wondering whether in fact every Saturday that you 've got , bearing in mind this is not flag days , this is in the street .
15 I 'm just wondering whether we should say , you know
16 I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it .
17 They seem as what women we are getting today er just want social er and yet my own particular guild , I 'm just wondering if it 's the secretaries that we 're , we 're jus it 's the good secretary we need of course really because , er this sounds really awful of me , it sounds a bit big-headed does n't it you know we would , we would say .
18 It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel .
19 and I 'm just wondering if maybe , maybe we will just have to do a wee bit of work and try and get something on the go to see if somebody will
20 Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ?
21 Erm I 'm just wondering if he ever gets the messages to say I 've phoned .
22 I 'm just wondering if there that 's related to that scripture that I 've just showed you
23 Well it is n't erm , I 'm just wondering if , ah , we are getting , erm the right service from Sharon the cleaner , that we are paying for .
24 I 'm just wondering if you 're over egging the pudding there .
25 I 'm still wondering whether the experience was physiological or psychological .
26 ‘ In fact he held me up for so long I 'm now wondering if it was a deliberate act on his part . ’
27 I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software .
28 And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school .
29 And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult .
30 ‘ We were just wondering whether we should send out a search party , ’ they told her .
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