Example sentences of "wish i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stared around , sweating , wishing I could go and lock myself in my nice safe ship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I — wishing I could say something really imposing , like Montmorency or Fitzpomeroy — said trenchantly : ‘ The name is Smith . ’ |
| 4 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 5 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of course all this business must seem mysterious to you , and I only wish I could tell you … ’ |
| 8 | She looked after him and said , in a low voice , ‘ I wish I could tell you what it was like in the desert . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 11 | I wish I could tell him that we are all in the same boat . |
| 12 | I wish I could tell you myself how much I love you and miss you . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I could tell you I 'd expected there to be . ’ |
| 14 | I wish I could tell you when the inspection for the Best Kept Village is to take place , but I 'm afraid it 's a well kept secret ! |
| 15 | How I wish I could draw , Donald ! |
| 16 | Wish I could draw like you . |
| 17 | I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie 's food like I used to , and we 'd have crackers and we 'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers . |
| 18 | I wish I could love her as little as I like her . |
| 19 | I wish I could love , but she says I ca n't help you . |
| 20 | ‘ What I mean is that I wish I could snap my fingers and suddenly there 'd be a band playing some soft , slow music . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I wish I could experience it . |
| 22 | I wish I could flush them out of my head . |
| 23 | Ah I wish I could lift my carpet up . |
| 24 | ‘ I just wish I could control him , ’ she says . |
| 25 | ‘ I really wish I could talk to that nome , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad … |
| 27 | The last couple of months it 's been dragging : you feel ‘ I wish I could talk to somebody ’ … not knowing anybody else you tend to get this feeling that unless you go out and talk to someone you 'll go stark raving mad . |
| 28 | I wish I could talk longer because I 'd like to tell you about the lungs , but er , time 's still . |
| 29 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 30 | ‘ I wish I could frame the question so you could just answer Yes or No , Phil , but I ca n't do that . ’ |