Example sentences of "[prep] earth i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 2 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 3 | ‘ I wondered what on earth I was doing there , ’ she said afterwards . |
| 4 | To start with I wondered how on earth I would be credible to all the media people . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 6 | While I fumble about , tripping over things , wondering where on earth I last saw a box of matches , my friend wisely sits still and directs me . |
| 7 | The other students were horrified at my appearance in the college , unable to understand what on earth I could be doing there . |
| 8 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the last place on earth I 'd want to live . ’ |
| 10 | I accepted plate and cup , thanked her , and wondered how on earth , into a conversation which had ranged from hydroponics to knitting to the situation in the smaller countries of the Warsaw Pact to the best breed of wool for spinning tweed to the honey and the siting of the hives — how on earth I could decently introduce my queries about Ewen Mackay . |
| 11 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be foolish to sell now , ’ said Syl judiciously , and I thought that apart from wanting young girls he wanted to inherit another big house , and I wondered how on earth I could be going to marry someone whom I detested so much . |
| 13 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 14 | Boxing was the only sport I was any good at , but I often wondered , sitting with gloves on waiting for the fight before mine to end , why on earth I did it . |
| 15 | This is the last place on earth I 'd expect you to set up home . ’ |
| 16 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 17 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 18 | ‘ I wonder where on earth I could have got the idea that you are a dishonest , lying , cheating young woman ? |
| 19 | Back at home office in Cleveland , I am trying to remember all those three-hour lunches with five courses and two bottles of wine and what on earth I was talking about . |
| 20 | I looked ahead and tried to think what on earth I was going to do . |
| 21 | ‘ Sarella , I do n't know what on earth I 'm going to do . ’ |
| 22 | I 've already been asked why on earth I 'm taking this job in a rugby town . |
| 23 | ‘ I only went once ( Chelsea , the MP 's lot ) , got frozen stiff and remember wondering what on earth I was doing there . ’ |
| 24 | perhaps not , but added to everything else , plus you want the archiving doing , the A three drawer doing , I do n't know when on earth I 'm going to have time to do that |
| 25 | Erm see if I can remember what on earth I did with the damn thing . |
| 26 | Sitting in the other studio but actually it 's Carl in there now and it 's it 's not Dennis in there at all and er how on earth I almost confused the two I do n't know . |