Example sentences of "[pron] wish [pers pn] had done " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish they had done better with the peacockery . |
| 2 | In a way I wish he had done . |
| 3 | I wish she had done . |
| 4 | If it comes to pass , Sun , which wishes it had done the deal with Novell , and presumably The Santa Cruz Operation — though see page 4 — wo n't be happy . |
| 5 | She wished she had done and admitted she had not . |
| 6 | He wished she had done it years ago . |
| 7 | Leaving the court , Penn was asked if he wished he had done things differently . |
| 8 | He retorted that the choice had been to close the paper and he wished he had done that because it would have been remembered as a decent publication . |
| 9 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |