Example sentences of "wonder why [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she wonders why we have n't got on with the work . |
| 2 | She wonders why he has invited her into his office . |
| 3 | And he wonders why he 's got a |
| 4 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |
| 5 | Susan is on the pill but wonders why she bothers when her husband is so sexually inactive . |
| 6 | Twice a day she swims and sometimes when she 's tired , she wonders why she keeps it up ; but the answer to that is she enjoys it so much . |
| 7 | She says that in retrospect , she wonders why she allowed herself to wade through it . |
| 8 | One thinks back to Morrissey in the early days and wonders why it has to be this way . |
| 9 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 10 | With such problems and difficulties to overcome one wonders why anyone bothers . |
| 11 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 12 | Of course , they are being treated with the contempt they deserve and you have to wonder why they do n't just get a life … |
| 13 | After the initial dismay he began to wonder why nothing had been devised to protect switches . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 16 | I used to wonder why she married Dad , but I know really . |
| 17 | The fervent confirmation carried all the passionate intensity of the emotion he had always incited , but for a panicky moment Maria could n't remember why she hated him , and , when she did , the alien way in which her newly traitorous mind was functioning forced her to wonder why she needed to hate him . |
| 18 | By the first Friday , I had either worked , or been on-call for thirty hours , and I was beginning to wonder why anyone wanted to become a doctor , for I was extremely tired , and nothing of any real interest had yet happened . |
| 19 | ‘ Am I allowed to wonder why you need all this ? ’ she said as he pulled a chair in and sat down . |
| 20 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I know a lot of people are beginning to wonder why I paid £2 million for him . |
| 23 | But he had n't given it , and I began to wonder why he had n't . |
| 24 | It may be that David 's teacher would consider it appropriate to wonder why he thought mummies and daddies could n't go on the slide . |
| 25 | You know , " he hissed , " I used to wonder why my father left you to go out and fight against the British , I used to wonder why he sacrificed everything … but the more I learn about you , the more I realize why ! " |
| 26 | Once , therefore , a national curriculum for England and Wales appeared on the agenda , the general reaction was to wonder why it had never been seriously considered before . |
| 27 | It is no good you being a couch potato and having a Dobermann , only to wonder why it seems so frustrated with its existence . |
| 28 | ‘ I was wondering why everything seemed so familiar . |
| 29 | You may be wondering why we wired over the box we installed in the barn . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's no use me doing nothing now and wondering why we 've got a problem in March . ’ |