Example sentences of "he wished he [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished he 'd kept quiet . |
| 2 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 3 | He wished he 'd eaten them now . |
| 4 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 5 | He wished he 'd stuck to Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 6 | He wished he 'd got some sleep on the bed when the humans were studying him ; it had looked quite comfortable . |
| 7 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 8 | Christ , how he wished he 'd had the courage to ask her to marry him before all this . |
| 9 | He could see the end coming , and it was just as she 'd said ; the friends he 'd made and lost , and the women that he wished he 'd known better . |
| 10 | He wished he 'd knocked his head right off . |
| 11 | He wished he 'd thought to put shoes on before he 'd started on this piece of nonsense ; feet felt like blocks of ice . |
| 12 | As it happened Paddington was having trouble about what to buy the Brown family for Christmas and he wished he 'd thought of it himself . |
| 13 | So , I do n't know wha , we , he did get some but erm a lot of them he wished he 'd brought |
| 14 | Oliver 's sharp sensitive features and figure adapted well to Sam Weller , but tonight he wished he 'd chosen anything rather than the trial scene from The Pickwick Papers to read . |
| 15 | Leaving the court , Penn was asked if he wished he had done things differently . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For the first time he felt awkward with this tall girl who was young enough to be his daughter , and he wished he had warned Mrs Deacon what to expect . |
| 18 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 19 | He wished he had asked her name . |
| 20 | He wished he had danced with her . |
| 21 | But he was in no way repentant , for he had parried this by saying he wished he had killed him and if he ever came across him again he would make another attempt . |
| 22 | He wished he had brought his overcoat . |
| 23 | He wished he had taken Sir John aside , made his peace and offered some refreshment , some claret in one of the Cheapside taverns . |
| 24 | He wished he had thought to forge some names on them . |
| 25 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 26 | At times like these he wished he had married an Englishwoman . |
| 27 | ‘ It has failed , ’ he said , then suddenly looked as if he wished he had bitten his tongue . |