Example sentences of "wish [pron] could [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled up at him , wishing she could will the tension out of his body , wishing she could make him relax that guard . |
| 2 | Do n't you wish you could eat him just like you ate your eggs ? |
| 3 | Now , thirty years later , I feel a great regret for the father of my first four years , who took me out , and who probably loved me , irresponsibly ( " it 's all right for him ; he does n't have to look after you " ) , and I wish I could tell him now , even though he was , in my sister 's words , a sod , that I 'm sorry for my years of rejection and dislike . |
| 4 | I wish I could tell him that we are all in the same boat . |
| 5 | ‘ I just wish I could control him , ’ she says . |
| 6 | I wish I could give him a post , but I could not pass Lord Bute 's son with decency ’ . |
| 7 | I never saw him again but to this day I wish I could take him to Ibrox and watch the Rangers with him and maybe buy him a half and half pint at one of the Govan pubs . |
| 8 | I wish I could help him , Carey thought . |
| 9 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 10 | Ricard vanished and I wished I could follow him . |
| 11 | I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove . |
| 12 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 13 | She wished she could tell him that Mr Evans had n't stolen the Will after all , but Nick had never thought that he had , so there was no point in it . |
| 14 | She wished she could tell him that was nonsense but she feared Pascoe 's death was confirmation of something she had imagined , not proof of something she had found incredible . |
| 15 | He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea . |
| 16 | When he said too readily , ‘ Yeah , could be , ’ she knew the blue haze of his need to reassure her , and wished she could believe him . |
| 17 | She wished she could take him back with her . |
| 18 | He had the worry and responsibility of his sister on his shoulders , and she wished she could take him in her arms and comfort him . |
| 19 | I wish we could get him to come to the meeting . |
| 20 | How she wished they could turn him out at once . |