Sentence examples for first time I wondered from inspiring English sources

On Sept. 11, for the first time, I wondered what I would regret if the world should end.

For the first time I wondered who my companion was and why he had chosen me as his disciple.

He comes from the expeditionary school of photography, which is to say that when he showed up the first time, I wondered if he had forgotten his equipment.

Not for the first time, I wondered whether it might ever be appropriate for me to lighten up and initiate a joke.

Not for the first time, I wondered what an arachnophobe such as myself (phobe, for that matter, of all things creeping or slithering) was doing in a jungle.

I was considerably late for the start of the gala again and, not for the first time, I wondered at how easy it was for people in normal jobs to get half days here and there.

Not for the first time, I wonder if my mum would have done the same thing.

Not for the first time, I wonder what made me sign up to this trip.

(Not for the first time, I wonder whether Beckett read Walser. It's quite possible; Beckett's German was excellent, and Kafka was certainly a fan).

'Next time,' says his agent, 'we really need to speak to the people who sign the cheques.' Not for the first time, I wonder how it will be possible for Lewis to make a career for himself as an actor, and as a producer, while also attempting to transform track and field into a 21st-century business phenomenon.

This is not the first time I have wondered if Boyd is well advised to go down this particular avenue.