Example sentences of "[noun prp] wish [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | She herself knew little or nothing about the organisation , and Donna wished she could have happened upon someone as knowledgeable on the subject as Mahoney had been . |
| 2 | Elaine wished she could have a marriage like that . |
| 3 | Carrie wished she could do that . |
| 4 | Gabriel wished she could have done so herself . |
| 5 | Negotiating her way home , Jay wished she could borrow some of Jamie 's crowd-quelling chutzpah to face Lucy . |
| 6 | Claudia wished she could stop shaking ; the touch of his hard body against hers had started up a whirlpool of emotion that left her wanting to run until she had put miles between them . |
| 7 | Myra greeted her with suppressed excitement and Claudia wished she could feel even a little of the same anticipation . |
| 8 | Daisy wished she could paint it , but you 'd need to be Lady Butler to capture that lot . |
| 9 | Bertha Cohen wished she could believe that that was the explanation , but in her heart she knew it was n't . |
| 10 | Celia wished she could take back the words . |
| 11 | Fen suggested , and not for the first time Robbie wished she could clear up this misapprehension . |
| 12 | Despite this little flurry of world premières , Lin wishes he could do more . |
| 13 | But when all was said and done , Mother Francis wished she could be sure that they would treat Eve well up in Mother Clare 's convent . |
| 14 | Isabel wished she could find the oblivion of sleep as easily , but though her body ached after the unaccustomed hours in the saddle her mind refused to rest . |
| 15 | Jezrael wished she could . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that Michael Joyce wished it could be so . |
| 17 | Dougal wished he could share his confidence . |
| 18 | Yet at times such as this Charlotte wished she could still believe all the lies she had been told . |
| 19 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |