Example sentences of "and wonder [Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
2 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |
3 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
4 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
5 | He rose but found his chains would not let him even reach it , so he slumped on the ledge and wondered how long he would be detained . |
6 | She realized by his use of the word ‘ they ’ instead of ‘ we ’ that he was not a native of the place , and wondered how long he had lived there . |