Example sentences of "wondered for the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice acquired a jeering note , not unfamiliar to Roland , who wondered for the first time what his mother had been like before her disappointment , which in her case was his father and to some extent himself . |
| 2 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 3 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 4 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 5 | Who was it ? he wondered for the thousandth time . |
| 6 | Jinny wondered for the hundredth time what it was like to be in a family which sat up and watched the television of an evening . |
| 7 | The contractions stopped and I wondered for the hundredth time what my son would look like . |