Example sentences of "wish i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look the model for all virginal brides , and I 'm beginning to wish I 'd let that awful shroud remain in your case . ’ |
| 2 | I stared around , sweating , wishing I could go and lock myself in my nice safe ship . |
| 3 | I was showing this off in my first week — wishing I could walk on my hands too , like my father — when I broke the bed 's cast-iron frame . |
| 4 | And I — wishing I could say something really imposing , like Montmorency or Fitzpomeroy — said trenchantly : ‘ The name is Smith . ’ |
| 5 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 6 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 7 | " Do you wish I 'd go away ? " |
| 8 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 9 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 10 | There have been fund-raising events , back-to-school meetings and enough notes sent home to make me wish I could employ a filing clerk . |
| 11 | I wish I may see it ! ’ |
| 12 | So really , I wo I wish I would have gone there . |
| 13 | Wish I would have gone . |
| 14 | I wish I 'd keep the walkman that would be so wicked . |
| 15 | As she was to tell one of her oldest friends : ‘ I only wish I 'd put my foot down with them years ago . ’ |
| 16 | I wish I 'd put a jumper on |
| 17 | I wish I 'd put on Rich . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish I 'd come years ago ! ’ |
| 19 | I thought : ‘ I wish I 'd ha' went instead of me telling him I 'd stop with four hands . ’ |
| 20 | and I wish I 'd remember that fella I 'd had , I 'd tell him off |
| 21 | I almost wish I 'd become a cop-car driver instead of a journalist now ; this is such sweet driving . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher . |
| 23 | you know , quite , But I 'd wished I 'd , I wish I 'd have got those photographs to show off . |
| 24 | I wish I 'd have carried on with piano lessons . |
| 25 | think to myself well it 's six months I wish I 'd have done it in August , now . |
| 26 | Wish I 'd have took it up in August . |
| 27 | I wish I 'd have bought more of them . |
| 28 | Of course all this business must seem mysterious to you , and I only wish I could tell you … ’ |
| 29 | She looked after him and said , in a low voice , ‘ I wish I could tell you what it was like in the desert . |
| 30 | I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man . |