Example sentences of "[pron] wished i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I wished I could see her . |
| 3 | I wished I had said nothing about Jordi . |
| 4 | I wished I was prettier in my face sometimes , but nothing much . |
| 5 | I wished I had stayed there instead of at the sweetshop . |
| 6 | I lay on my bed in a cheap lodging house and cried and I tell you Ellen I wished I was with you and receiving your kindness which was great to me . |
| 7 | I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive . |
| 8 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 9 | And when it did arrive , I knew that Kano was still one thousand , seven hundred miles away over mountains and dunes , almost as far from me as Manchester , my home , where , as I turned ruefully north , I wished I had stayed . |
| 10 | I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles . |
| 11 | I wished I could be a fly on the wall . |
| 12 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 13 | I wished I could say : ‘ This is nothing to do with my book . |
| 14 | When I was at school I hated it , but when I left I wished I were back there . |
| 15 | I wished I had n't . |
| 16 | I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove . |
| 17 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 18 | The finishing-off jobs were taking longer than even I thought , but gradually both houses were furnished and fitted to a standard I wished I had met myself in holiday homes . |
| 19 | I wished I could have told Nigel : he would have loved it . |
| 20 | I wished I had something to offer him — charm or eccentricity . |
| 21 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |
| 22 | I wished I could say yes , I minded like hell , it would n't cost me much in the circumstances . |
| 23 | The front area of the house , including our bedroom , was dry , and how I wished I could lock myself in there and pretend the rest was n't happening . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you who I did see that night I wished I had n't . |
| 25 | The first time I saw them , I wished I could be a Gnat . |
| 26 | I wished I knew a few of the answers . |
| 27 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 28 | Even though I now encourage my class to use any methods they like , there are still times when I wished I had not said something which could inhibit a pupil 's thinking . |
| 29 | As I entered the room I wished I 'd thought of phoning a desperate SOS to James . |
| 30 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |