Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] if the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When faced with proposals which offer ‘ a reorientation of communications cutting across traditional routes and boundaries ’ , which in English means building roads over people 's houses , and that routes for these roads are represented by a squiggle from a felt tip pen , which then is incorporated as the project logo , we must begin to wonder if the DED and DOE are poking fun at the communities likely to suffer . |
| 2 | She began to wonder if the relationship was not , very very slowly , dying a natural death , and whether it would not be sensible to terminate it quickly . |
| 3 | The men began to wonder if the people whom they had laughed off as superstitious niggers were n't right after all . |
| 4 | She began to wonder if the woman who had sent the box-message had tricked her here into this dead-end room . |
| 5 | Of course , most of them thrive on it , but many people are beginning to wonder if the rewards for having power , and being able to influence others , are worth the costs , especially in terms of family relationships . |
| 6 | Now he was beginning to wonder if the colour had been natural . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've no idea but I 'm beginning to wonder if the cops do n't have another idea . |
| 8 | I was beginning to wonder if the place actually existed . ’ |