Example sentences of "wonder [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring . |
| 2 | Exactly how this will be done remains to be seen , but one wonders what the effects will be . |
| 3 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 4 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 5 | One wonders what the factors are which cause modern uncivilised behaviour ? |
| 6 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 7 | At 14 , they begin to wonder what the innuendos mean . |
| 8 | YOU have to wonder what the Bush administration was looking for when it set out , in early 1989 , to find a new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts . |
| 9 | At this point in this kind of argument it is customary to wonder what the West — more precisely , the United States — has done wrong in the Middle East , and how it could bring improvements faster . |
| 10 | He had disappeared entirely , leaving me to wonder what the hell he was playing at . |
| 11 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 12 | And again had to wonder what the dickens was the matter with her for Ven , in no way similarly affected , moved and , taking casual hold of her arm , began to lead her across the road . |
| 13 | ‘ How did she take it ? ’ asked Alexandra , trying not to laugh , wondering who the intrepid widow could possibly have been . |
| 14 | Wondering who the wealthy client was , she began to hurry , but Robert 's voice stopped her . |
| 15 | He went out of the gate , wondering what the rest of the unit had been doing . |
| 16 | ‘ So I 'm taken back down and I 'm wondering what the hell 's going on . |
| 17 | But I ca n't help wondering what the owners do with all that spare time in the winter , when they could be making our sandwiches and drying off our boots by the fire . |
| 18 | A stranger that was addressed by him would imagine he was talking to someone else , or if no other person was in the room , would stare about him , wondering what the fellow was talking to . |
| 19 | I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it . |
| 20 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 21 | The men were sidling in , wondering what the hell was going to happen . |
| 22 | ‘ As well you did , ’ D'Arcy said , wondering what the hell might have happened had the manservant not been present . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Wondering what the day held in store for us … and worrying about Giles . |
| 25 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 26 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 27 | wondering what the legal position was on that . |
| 28 | Wondering what the hell he 's up to . |
| 29 | You do n't know what it 's like wondering what the hell he 's up to now and where he 's gone and when he 'll be back . |
| 30 | Most people leave desperately trying to stop the ringing in their ears and wondering what the hell happened . |