Example sentences of "and wonder [Wh adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson was left smarting and wondering why he had ever strayed to the glamour side of the business from the safe haven of Corman 's mini-budgets and rented sets . |
| 2 | Still , she would gaze in wonder at Fleury 's clear , though dirty , countenance and wonder why he did not get any . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't think I am going to wear that trash , do you ? ’ she had said when the great day came ; and wondered why he had ‘ got into one of his passionate tempers ’ ( poor little disappointed boy ! ) |
| 4 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 5 | Meredith watched the struggle on the man 's face as he tried to control his wayward mouth , and wondered why he did n't want to grin when he was so obviously amused by her cheek . |
| 6 | He looked about him as he made his way through , horrified by the squalor , the ugliness of everything he saw , and wondered how he had stood it . |
| 7 | I found it odd that Robert had chosen to distinguish me alone as English and wondered how he saw himself and Lili and I found it odd that Lili had chosen to lay claim to Englishness . |
| 8 | He took the call in the sitting room and Rain sat on a red-painted kitchen chair and wondered how he came to be living in such circumstances . |