Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] what the " in BNC.
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1 | As the shock receded , Charles found himself wondering what the disagreement had really been about . |
2 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
3 | It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive . |
4 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
5 | If we take sentences without contexts and devise interpretations for them on the basis of the mutual compatibility or otherwise of the type-meaning of the words in them , we are putting ourselves under constraints which have nothing to do with syntax ; by thus restricting and deforming our appreciations of the structure we prevent ourselves seeing what the effect of the syntax , qua syntax , is . |
6 | I find that whenever I notice some sentence in context , I immediately find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . |
7 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |