Example sentences of "wonder [subord] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Scotsman Billy said last night : ‘ My wife wonders if we should get a gun . |
| 2 | Michael wonders if he would ever gain sufficient skills in photography or desk top publishing to form part of a cooperative or enterprise . |
| 3 | He wonders if he could get postcards of them . |
| 4 | She wonders if she will in fact see her son , since a tender has come off the track down the line . |
| 5 | When at one point Decibel meets Zab , Zab wonders if she must not be dreaming . |
| 6 | She hates being photographed and wonders if she should ever have chosen a career in television . |
| 7 | Even in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Joyce 's semi-autobiographical hero wonders whether he may not love ‘ words better than their associations ’ ( Joyce 1916 and 1973 : 167 ) . |
| 8 | One wonders whether he would still be so well remembered had he lived his monastic life in the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire in Roussillon . |
| 9 | Where sewage disposal is also to be privatised one wonders whether there would be a standard charge , or if it might be metered . |
| 10 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 11 | Management consultants are not quite in the American lawyer category when it comes to vilification , but they attract their fair share ( well almost … ) : the Financial Times defines a management consultant as someone who sees something working in practice and wonders whether it will work in theory … |
| 12 | J K Galbraith wonders whether it can be averted |
| 13 | This was where I began to wonder if we would succeed with our mission . |
| 14 | When the yard closed we began to wonder if we could use the Worm in some way , and when Sakata opened we began to realize how . |
| 15 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 16 | After the first , it occurred to her to wonder if she ought to offer to leave . |
| 17 | Therese , under the fixed smile and the determination , was beginning to wonder if she ought to withdraw now , before they got too far into rehearsals . |
| 18 | The main part of the school was considerably more attractive , being a red-brick residence , rambling but characterful , built for the vendor of wine and spirits in the last years of the Old Queen , when people were beginning to wonder if she would ever go . |
| 19 | It was uncomfortable enough , knowing she would have to face him , but it was worse not to know when , to wonder if she would turn around suddenly and find him watching her with those cold , cold eyes … |
| 20 | I began to wonder if she 'd still have the same effect on you . ’ |
| 21 | She was beginning to wonder if she 'd misread it — got the time all wrong . |
| 22 | Otherwise defender Darren Wassall may begin to wonder if he might make more money by doing something else at Wembley tomorrow . |
| 23 | ‘ I always used to wonder if he might be . |
| 24 | Coffin was already beginning to wonder if he could fit a face to the type of killer he had imagined . |
| 25 | Joe began to wonder if he should go to the police . |
| 26 | Outside the hotel he had fought down misgivings at the idea of allowing an old man to drag him through the streets when he could easily have walked , and he began to wonder if he should dismount . |
| 27 | Leaving Charlie to take his own pulse , to practise his deep breathing , and to wonder if he 'd ever be able to untighten his sphincter without medical intervention . |
| 28 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 29 | He smiled as Sophie flushed and he added , ‘ I was beginning to wonder if I would n't be a bit bored with just my uncle — nice man though he is — but now I 'm extremely glad I accepted his invitation . ’ |
| 30 | I was beginning to wonder if I 'd ever find you ! ’ |