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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.
He wondered whether God had a dog in the sky.
Gilborn wondered whether Kitti had lain in that same bed with Who??
She wondered whether Stanley would call.
( 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 was
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
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.
The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.
He wondered what expression, as he made that gesture, was on his face.
And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.
How was she to behave, Claire wondered.
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.
Where was Mr. Flannagan, he wondered.
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 ''??
Now he wondered if it was worth it, having a screwball for company.
He wondered Probably because it was a place where she might get a feeling of certainty and security.
The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.
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??
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.
Thus Jerome acknowledged the principle by which the canon was settled — the judgment of the Church, rather than his own judgment or the judgment of Jews, though he wondered why one would sanction the version of a heretic and judaizer.
Modern historians have wondered at Duilius ’ decision not to immediately follow up with another naval attack, but Hamilcar ’ s remaining 80 ships was probably still too strong for Rome to conquer.
The film was a critical success, though some critics wondered about the social impact of a character that they saw as sympathetic.

wondered and going
Certain lawyers and abuse advocates have openly wondered why a similar suit was not filed against archbishop Bernard Law, who escaped prosecution by going into exile in Vatican City.
:" I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do.
There is a little curve just after passing over the river, and I wondered if the engine were going to take that curve or if it were going to take to the woods .” When the train came into Waycross, the crew figured they had come the 40 miles from Jesup in 28 minutes.
In the unaired version, they were going at such a relatively slow speed that they wondered if they were on Mars.
Then, as I recovered and became aware of my lack of abilities, I wondered how I was going to earn a living.
Brown said, " I got no real instruction and wondered what I was going to do after four years of this sort of education.
De Botton has described his relationship with his father as difficult, stating: " When I sold my first bestseller ( and a million dollars was peanuts for my father ) he was not impressed and rather wondered what I was going to do with myself.
They wondered if they could be content with what the great bulk of these projects and programs had achieved and just keep going on as-is, or if it were not time to stand back and look again.
Fans wondered if Tony was going to kill Paulie in that episode because both Pussy and Ralph ended up being murdered by Tony.
The department was never meant to generate any revenue as far as Jobs was concerned, but after the release of two shorts, Luxo Jr. ( 1986 ) and Red's Dream ( 1987 ), some of the engineers working on the company's products wondered whether it made sense to keep the animation group going at all.
Bush wondered whether he should excuse himself and retreat to the holding room, where he might be able to find out what the hell was going on.
Some people at the time openly wondered if he was going to buy Alaska, or build a railroad bridge from Alaska to Siberia — a railroad around the world.
When Malcolm left her and Tarquin, Cressida wondered what she was going to do for money until Tarquin pointed out that is was always her father who sent her monthly cheques.
Coppi said: " I wondered how Carrea, so shy and so emotional, was going to take it.
He swerved back to his side of the road and for the next 20 years wondered how he was going to use it in a film.
Phillip Scudder, owner of the Hy-Line ferry service on Cape Cod, originally opposed the project because he wondered how to navigate around the turbines when going to Martha's Vineyard, but changed its opposition to support due to the economic opportunity to provide " eco-tours.

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