Example sentences of "wonder [conj] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael wonders if he would ever gain sufficient skills in photography or desk top publishing to form part of a cooperative or enterprise . |
| 2 | She hates being photographed and wonders if she should ever have chosen a career in television . |
| 3 | One wonders whether he would still be so well remembered had he lived his monastic life in the Abbey of Saint-Hilaire in Roussillon . |
| 4 | America has had many unsuccessful attempts to form a national repertory theatre , performing the classics of the English language , and one wonders whether it will ever be possible to get this going effectively . |
| 5 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 6 | The main part of the school was considerably more attractive , being a red-brick residence , rambling but characterful , built for the vendor of wine and spirits in the last years of the Old Queen , when people were beginning to wonder if she would ever go . |
| 7 | I began to wonder if she 'd still have the same effect on you . ’ |
| 8 | Leaving Charlie to take his own pulse , to practise his deep breathing , and to wonder if he 'd ever be able to untighten his sphincter without medical intervention . |
| 9 | I was beginning to wonder if I 'd ever find you ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Needs must , ’ lied Sally-Anne , who was beginning to wonder whether she would ever be able to tell the whole truth again . |
| 11 | A couple of setbacks on the journey kept our group of five wondering if we should really be going . |
| 12 | As they retraced their steps , Ruth could n't help wondering if they would ever be able to tell Danny and Lilian the truth about their Aunt Rosie when they grew up . |
| 13 | Ruth stretched out her hands to the red glow , wondering if she would ever again be warm all through her . |
| 14 | She gave her letter to the postman with a heavy heart , wondering if she would ever see her sister again . |
| 15 | He threw her hand contemptuously from him and she rubbed it , wondering if she would ever get rid of the impression of his fingers . |
| 16 | She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back . |
| 17 | Jannie smiled at him , wondering if he could even remember how old they were . |
| 18 | ‘ You promised Dana not to tell me something , ’ she said , wondering if he could actually hear her heart breaking . |
| 19 | She looked at him levelly , wondering if he could perhaps be mad , after all , as she searched in her mind for evidence of her ‘ disgusting behaviour ’ . |
| 20 | You plot along at a steady crawl wondering if you 'll ever reach that far-off doorway , let go of the joystick as soon as you get there , then promptly take another pace ! |
| 21 | Erm , I was wondering if you 'd perhaps like to tell us how you 're going to manage your er , your . |
| 22 | ‘ Er — I was wondering if you could just come and help me for a moment ? ’ |
| 23 | So I 'm wondering if you could possibly lend a hand . ’ |
| 24 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 25 | His latest disciplinary bust-up has left senior Middlesex officials wondering whether they can ever tame the 22-year-old hothead . |
| 26 | When challenged to say what was on his mind , he replied that he had been wondering whether it would ever be given to him to make France great again , as it had been in the days of Charlemagne . |
| 27 | ‘ But of course — my wife says that we anthropologists are like a housewife faced with the remains of yesterday 's stew and wondering whether it can possibly be eked out to make another meal . ’ |
| 28 | Leather , so luxurious you find yourself wondering whether it could really have come from a cow , finds its perfect match in glossy burr walnut . |
| 29 | Like lying in bed in the morning when they call you to get up and you lie there , listening to the noises in the street below , wondering whether you 'll ever get up and join them . |
| 30 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |