Example sentences of "wished he could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished he could feel easier with William . |
| 2 | We understood his need to feel that he was special , that someone was looking after him , and wished he could draw strength from us , rather than locking himself in his fantasies . |
| 3 | He wished he could instruct Eleanor to leave a hair grip , but she did n't use any . |
| 4 | Once again he wished he could 've listened in . |
| 5 | He wished he could explain about Donald . |
| 6 | He only wished he could grow taller and tougher and learn not to twitch and stammer with nervousness , that he could stop biting his nails and scratching his head so that his father would no longer hate him . |
| 7 | He wished he could stop the conversation . |
| 8 | " Bowled over , " Graham said nervously , then wished he could gulp the words back somehow . |
| 9 | She wished he could love her ! |
| 10 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |
| 11 | He wished he could speak to Zeinab about it . |
| 12 | For a moment , he wished he could tell Elinor these things . |
| 13 | He wished he could go on holding her hand , but that was impossible . |
| 14 | I remember the editor of ITN saying at a meeting in the 1960s that he sometimes wished he could precede every bulletin with : ‘ Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world went about their lives today without anything unusual happening to them . |
| 15 | He 's the best striker I 've ever worked with , I just wished he could do that sort of thing when he played for England . |
| 16 | More than that , he wished he could put his finger on why he did n't . |
| 17 | Asik simply wished he could live closer to the village but he knew there was no way his grandparents would survive the move , so he trundled on and tried dearly not to think about it . |
| 18 | Sometimes I wished he could have been harder on long-winded questioners , at others that he would resist the temptation to get into a private clinch with the politicians . |
| 19 | So he sat down again and listened to the story of the Damianis , of their life in Jaffa and of how they fled in 1948 , how David Damiani stood on the stern of the ship off Jaffa port and wished he could have turned round then and gone back to his home . |
| 20 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 21 | ‘ Doctor Andrews told me that he kept on saying how much he wished he could have left you enough money to live on ; but , as you know , nearly everything he possessed he 'd already bequeathed to that French museum which he started himself . |
| 22 | As I listened to him fumbling for words of explanation , I wished he could have said boldly that what was thought to be so heinous today was not thought to be so then , but that looking back now , he deeply regretted what had happened . |
| 23 | ( How he wished he could have said Oxford . |
| 24 | I wished he could have seen that . |
| 25 | He had not expected it of her and wished he could have gone away quickly without even asking if there was anything he could do for her . |
| 26 | He wished he could have invited him to dinner that night . |
| 27 | Athelstan asked hastily , and wished he could have bitten his tongue out the moment he spoke . |
| 28 | Lexandro felt cut to the quick , and wished he could kill this impertinent — if perceptive — Sergeant . |
| 29 | As he sang , the tears flowed from the bandages , sliding slowly down his pale cheeks , till Donald , playing for him , wished he could play one-handed to wipe his own eyes . |
| 30 | He thought about Burun 's intent towards Sidacai , and wished he could discuss it with someone . |