Example sentences of "[pron] wish i had [been] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ How I wish I had been there ! ’ said Gildas , not for the first time .
2 I wish I had been there .
3 I wish I had been able to help .
4 I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) .
5 In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ .
6 Some people might think I was approached by Harper Collins with a check for half a million pounds and asked to write the book — in a way I wish I had been .
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