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wondered and whether
If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.
He possessed the fighter pilot's horror of bad weather and instrument flying, and he wondered, if the ceiling did drop, whether he and the other flights would be able to find their way back in this unfamiliar territory.
Gilborn wondered whether Kitti had lain in that same bed with Who??
She wondered whether Stanley would call.
He wondered whether Needham was going to swear off gambling and get a steady job or whether he was counting on the income from Betty's estate to subsidize him.
( Several times recently I have wondered whether shows were being staged for the sake of the script or just to entertain the audience with the spectacle of scenery being shifted right in front of their eyes.
As editor of the Journal für praktische Chemie ( Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884 ), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874, that some wondered whether he might have been suffering a mental illness.
Oil had been discovered there by Standard Oil Company in the 1920s, and people wondered whether an immense pool of oil was lying beneath the entire area.
In the same paper, Poincaré wondered whether a 3-manifold with the homology of a 3-sphere and also trivial fundamental group had to be a 3-sphere.
There were further doubts over the venture, as Roberts wondered whether to consolidate his losses and pull the plug, or to continue pumping his own finances into the project.
They have been of special interest for the HTS materials because many researchers have wondered whether spin correlations might play a role in the mechanism of the HTS.
Several captains viewed the expanse of water between Van Diemen's Land and the east coast of New South Wales and wondered whether it was a large bay or a strait.
Skelton wondered also whether the revisions in the far east were meant to represent Japan — they seem to show not only Honshu, but also Hokkaido and Sakhalin, omitted even from Oriental maps in the 15th century.
After the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews wondered whether this would happen again.
Some commentators often wondered whether Bobby or Dennis had the harder shot.
During his last years in office, commentators wondered whether he would shoot to stardom as a presidential hopeful or, as governor, sour Minnesota voters on the DFL party with questionable public relations.
Borodin wrote to Rimsky-Korsakov that he wondered whether Balakirev's condition was little better than insanity.
Patterson wondered whether that influenced Koko's choice.
In a retrospective comment on the festival The Times critic wrote of full houses and an apparent enthusiasm for " music which hitherto has enjoyed no exceptional vogue ", but wondered whether this new acceptance was based on a solid foundation.
Juliet Stevenson told Worth that during rehearsals she had wondered whether the lines were being delivered too fast for viewers to take in their sense theatre critic, Alice Griffin … thought that the lines ‘ came across more clearly and more easily understandable than sometimes in the theatre .’ This she attributed partly to Minghella ’ s use of close-up, a recurring feature of the film versions naturally enough .”
Stunned by the degree to which the democracy slogan had swayed the public both at home and abroad, he wondered whether this propaganda model could be employed during peace time.
Two years after the split, many have wondered whether Twins had become a myth.
* With a year and a half between Asano Naganori's death and the slaying of Kira, some had wondered whether the revenge was really a priority of Ōishi Kuranosuke, the chief retainer of Asano Naganori.

wondered and God
Not satisfied with his knowledge of philosophy, he wondered if God and religion could be made a part of one's growing experiences and deeply internalised.
" Miller's response was, " I always wondered why God made Bierce.
: I have often in my heart wondered what God was training you for.
The inhabitants of this city are transformed once a month into birds, and Sinbad has one of the bird-people carry him to the uppermost reaches of the sky, where he hears the angels glorifying God, " whereat I wondered and exclaimed, ' Praised be God!
Emma believed that Annie had gone to heaven and told this to the children, with the unfortunate result that Henrietta wondered, if all the angels were men, did women go to heaven ?, and worried for months that her naughtiness while Annie was alive would mean that she would go to hell unless God forgave her.
During this time, the new Prophet wondered if he had somehow displeased God, who it seemed for a while was no longer sending down His message.
Messori continues to ask questions throughout the book that people throughout the world have wondered: “ How do you pray ?” “ Does God really exist ?” “ Is there really hope in the young ?” “ Does eternal life exist ?” “ What does it mean to be saved ?” The pope does not answer questions that only pertain to Catholicism.

wondered and had
She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.
He left the house and almost certain death without even increasing his pace and wondered by what remarkable stroke of Providence he had been allowed to come out alive.
The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.
Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??
Clerks and postmasters shoveled muck out of their offices -- those who still had offices -- and wondered how to move the mail.
I wondered suddenly as I listened to the disconnected jabberings coming from the patient behind me, if I had not perhaps imagined it all.
He wondered how long it would be before they had a signed confession from Lionel Black.
Nick wondered if Elaine had bought them, but he said nothing.
Why, he wondered, had Elaine wanted him along on this trip??
Now he recalled it very clearly, and wondered what the truck driver had seen in those eyes to make him back off.
I could see the ancient cynicism reinforce itself in her eyes, and I wondered how many men she had picked up with this same gambit.
Could it just be, Theresa wondered, that Anne had understood only too well, and that George all along was extraordinary only in the degree to which he was dull??
He wondered if he had played it wrong.
Mercer wondered how long the super-condamine had lasted him.
Jimmy Page reportedly found out about a new singer, Robert Plant, who had been jamming with Korner, who wondered why Plant had not yet been discovered.
The wardens looked around the hills, stated Kulesh's evidence, that last time Kulesh had seen his workmate near the fireplace, Kulesh went out to work and Centurashvili left to warm himself more ; but when Kulesh returned to the fireplace, Centurashvili had vanished ; who knows, maybe he got frozen somewhere in snow, he was a weak guy (...) The wardens searched for two more days, and then assumed that it was an escape case, though they wondered why, since his imprisonment period was almost over (...) The crime was there.
In fact one modern scholar has wondered if Herodotus left his home in Asiatic Greece, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to Herodotus at Thuria ( one of his three supposed resting places ):

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