Example sentences of "wondered [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Along at Moness House James Flemyng and his wife looked at each other apprehensively and wondered if it was time to bar the shutters .
2 Cameron wondered if it would be possible to raise the matter with him again , and bring him into a more realistic frame of mind , before the soldiers came .
3 I wondered if it was him , playing on a pre-recorded tape ; or his brother .
4 Of course he had asked her if she was quite certain and she said she was , quite certain , but now he wondered if it was mere association that had made her agree , association and horror .
5 He looked at his watch again and wondered if it was time to intervene .
6 He wondered if it was the promise of spring .
7 He wondered if it was anyone he knew .
8 She wondered if it was all right for her to go on thinking about Baby .
9 ‘ Do n't know , ’ said Dot and wondered if it was anything like princesses .
10 Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory .
11 He wondered if it was ever right to spend ‘ large sums of money … in attempting to compete with ’ the Church of England .
12 privately he wondered if it would do any good at all .
13 It looked like hundreds and hundreds of houses all piled dangerously on top of each other and Endill wondered if it was safe to live in such a place .
14 Noreen wondered if it would be safe to go home again for a visit ?
15 I wondered if it was the usual supper for prisoners .
16 Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication .
17 Even then , he wondered if it was only in his imagination .
18 As the urchin flexed its bristles I momentarily wondered if it would be edible .
19 She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life .
20 He wondered if it was him .
21 A piece of rope dangled from its neck ; in his panic Paul wondered if it had been gnawed through .
22 She wondered if it was an original or a reproduction .
23 She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting .
24 Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes .
25 I think he secretly always wondered if it might have been more entertaining .
26 She sipped the pink gin , and for a few delirious seconds Peter wondered if it had turned out well because she had met him instead .
27 Though dated to around mid second century AD by Sotheby 's , several dealers wondered if it could not be a Roman baroque forgery ( one attributed it to Pietro Bernini ) .
28 He wondered if it was the same rope but did not like to ask his mother .
29 It was obvious that the plane had been repainted before its journey and Whitlock suddenly wondered if it had been done to erase the memories of the previous regime .
30 So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined .
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