Example sentences of "wonder if [pers pn] [modal v] [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 | Many of them go on to wonder if they could ever make a marriage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I began to wonder if she 'd still have the same effect on you . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was beginning to wonder if I 'd ever find you ! ’ |
| 8 | A couple of setbacks on the journey kept our group of five wondering if we should really be going . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ruth stretched out her hands to the red glow , wondering if she would ever again be warm all through her . |
| 11 | She gave her letter to the postman with a heavy heart , wondering if she would ever see her sister again . |
| 12 | He threw her hand contemptuously from him and she rubbed it , wondering if she would ever get rid of the impression of his fingers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jannie smiled at him , wondering if he could even remember how old they were . |
| 15 | ‘ You promised Dana not to tell me something , ’ she said , wondering if he could actually hear her heart breaking . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Erm , I was wondering if you 'd perhaps like to tell us how you 're going to manage your er , your . |
| 19 | ‘ Er — I was wondering if you could just come and help me for a moment ? ’ |
| 20 | So I 'm wondering if you could possibly lend a hand . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They repeated that he did n't need anything else because he would be back in the afternoon , which more than anything else they could have said made me wonder if we would ever see him again . |
| 23 | I wonder if they would sooner live in a tribal hut than the white man 's three-bedroomed house with fully-fitted kitchen ? ’ |
| 24 | The tragedy is that life has now become complex and involved , and they wonder if they can ever break themself from all those things that are now hindrances . |
| 25 | But before that before the sell out concert tour in Ireland , did you ever think I wonder what they 'll think of us back home I wonder if we 'll still do it ? |
| 26 | I wonder if we shall ever run into him . |
| 27 | ‘ Norman , ’ said de Sousa as the coffee and brandy were being poured , I wonder if we ought perhaps to have just a tiny natter about the programme . ’ |
| 28 | I wonder if we could just consider the question of what is meant by the term general location . |
| 29 | I wonder if we could just finish with a very brief comment from you in a positive sense as to what would be your advice to somebody that 's unemployed ? |
| 30 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |