Example sentences of "wonder [Wh adv] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 2 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |
| 3 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 4 | He kept wondering how it had got Silk . |
| 5 | We did land home eventually but I think Mrs Thwaites 's folks were understandably worried , wondering where we had got to . |
| 6 | That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again . |
| 7 | It was as if she was checking over her life , wondering where she had got to . |
| 8 | ‘ I was utterly absorbed in my book , ’ explained Lydia , wondering where she had left it . |
| 9 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 10 | ‘ Never heard of it , ’ Ace said distractedly , wondering why she had bothered coming along . |
| 11 | I accused her , wondering why she had let Rickie play such an appalling din at such volume at such a late hour . |
| 12 | Wondering why he had agreed to take her . |
| 13 | As they resumed their stroll along the beckside , he stole a sideways glance at her , wondering why he had paid no attention to her before . |
| 14 | No , of course not , I replied , wondering why he had brought the subject up : why , too , was he so anxious to avoid it ? |
| 15 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 16 | Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long . |
| 17 | Afterwards she wondered how she had kept silent , holding her breath , listening to the drumming of her heart . |
| 18 | Right now she wondered how she had felt capable of raging at him this morning . |
| 19 | And , as she looked into his face , her heart thundering inside her , Ronni wondered how she had survived without him . |
| 20 | He did n't see any reason to mind it , but he wondered how she had developed such a good instinct for discovering his whereabouts . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's one thing we have got to remember — ’ Molly wondered how she had forgotten to tell them . |
| 22 | He wondered how she had come there , and how long she had been there , and what her voice would be like , and a thousand other ridiculous things , whilst she breathed in and out , ruffling the gold threads of hair . |
| 23 | In fact , looking back , she sometimes wondered how it had lasted as long as it did . |
| 24 | We wondered how it had got there . |
| 25 | I wondered how it had happened that so many men owed Félix money . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Rex wondered how he had omitted this rather obvious option from his former list . |
| 28 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 29 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 30 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |