Example sentences of "[verb] wish [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The metals remain nice and weak , I do wish wish we 'd get on and get those orders in . |
| 2 | ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do wish we could help her — somehow , ’ sighed Christine . |
| 4 | ‘ I do wish she would meet some nice fellow and run off with him . |
| 5 | ‘ Mama , she is so like our sister-in-law — I do wish she could stay with us , ’ said nine-year-old Anne who had a special affinity with her namesake . |
| 6 | I do wish he 'd command his 6 yard box more on crosses and corners tho |
| 7 | Sometimes I do wish he 'd LISTEN to what I say . |
| 8 | I really do wish you would believe that . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do wish you 'd make some effort to grow up , ’ said my mother before she could stop herself , for she did n't want her future son-in-law to know how much I could irritate her . |
| 10 | ‘ I do wish you 'd remember , ’ she said irritably . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do wish you 'd let Granny Fordham stay on in her cottage , ’ she added . |
| 12 | I do wish you 'd come and see him again . " |
| 13 | I do wish you 'd come and see Grace . " |
| 14 | I do wish you could come out and see . |
| 15 | More importantly however , everyone enjoyed themselves — I do wish you could have come along . |
| 16 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 17 | PHILLIPA DAVIES is not against Neil Kin nock — ‘ after all I am Welsh , too ’ — but she does wish he would drop some of the more irritating Welsh features of his speech . |