Example sentences of "i wonder [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later did I wonder why it had been so important to tell Helmut I was returning to London . |
| 2 | I did I wonder how it works |
| 3 | ‘ I wonder why they got you . |
| 4 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder why they left all this ? ’ he said . |
| 6 | I wonder why they put that car down there tonight ? |
| 7 | I wonder why they stopped ? |
| 8 | I wonder why they do all this in Christmas week ? |
| 9 | I wonder why they linger . |
| 10 | I wonder why they call it Hunger Hill ma ? |
| 11 | I wonder why they call Hunger Hill ? |
| 12 | I wonder why they have n't burnt . |
| 13 | ‘ I wonder why they elected him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I wonder why you told everyone Harbury had lost the crime job if you did n't have his successor neatly lined up ? ’ |
| 15 | I wonder why , I wonder why you get that when you go home , there must be certain signs . |
| 16 | ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea when you know it 's dangerous ’ ( quoted by B. J. Wagner , 1976 , p. 59 ) , muses Mrs. Heathcote to a class of children who are into a drama about pirates — and she from then on carries at the back of her mind the possibility that through the subsequent experience these children might understand something of what drives people to face dangers . |
| 17 | Now Dorothy 's ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea … ’ detaches itself from simple classification ; its very phrasing has emotional overtones . |
| 18 | I wonder why erm I wonder why you said no , those sixty two of you ? |
| 19 | I wonder why you did n't phone your lawyer before I ever got to the front door . ’ |
| 20 | I wonder why you did that to help Jamie ? ’ |
| 21 | I wonder why you did n't go . |
| 22 | Because I wonder why you have n't made many musicals — you seem to have the personality and the looks for it . |
| 23 | ‘ I wonder why you have been so good to Aunt Lavvy . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 25 | Oh , I wonder why it says that then ? |
| 26 | I wonder why it does n't work |
| 27 | I wonder why he left his car in Barrowclough Road . |
| 28 | I wonder why he made such a thing of that . |
| 29 | I wonder why he keeps them ? |
| 30 | I wonder why he keeps being sick |