Sentence examples for we would wonder from inspiring English sources

I was born to a very poor family, so poor that having finished one meal, we would wonder when the next one would be.

When he came to look over the project from time to time, he would always make some gnomic utterance and we would wonder what he meant.

After the rain would come, Dad would take us by the hand to the top of the bank to watch the awesome rush of muddy water, and floating plants, and we would wonder where those trees would finally rest in the Pacific.

When Gyula Grosics, in Hungary's 6-3 win over England at Wembley in 1953, dealt with a long hanging ball by darting a yard or so outside his box to volley clear, the commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme had palpitations at the oddity of it all; now we would wonder why he had not controlled the ball and tried to play a pass rather than squandering possession with a hasty clearance.

We would wonder if they were going to pull the plug that day.

In fact, we would wonder how 'unmotivated students' do prepare prior to their IHE if our findings reflect the preparation of the 'especially motivated' students.

"Otherwise, we'd wonder what we're still doing here," said Ms. Rogeri, 51.

"We'd wonder, How long?" Martin Luther King's press secretary in Chicago, Don Rose, recalled in an echo of the old movement chant, "How long?

"We'd sit on a bench on the cliffs, and we'd wonder if anyone would miss us if we jumped off.

If Nigel Farage joked about being hungover, we'd get it; if Nick Clegg joked about being hungover, we'd wonder what the hell he was on.

If the organizers did not announce that in this election "the stakes are immeasurably high," we'd wonder if they had become complacent.