Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [vb base] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I wish you could answer me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , how I wish I could go home and find him there ! ’ thought Penny , as she hurried along the footpath that led to her house . |
| 3 | How I wish I could draw , Donald ! |
| 4 | How I wish I could find a master like you , tough and strong . |
| 5 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 6 | How I wish I could have helped him . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There are times when I wish she could have a couple of years off to bring up her children , be at home with them , and not worry about anything else apart from them and her husband . |
| 8 | From where I lay I could see the repeated pattern of the sleepers slowly passing beneath the train . |
| 9 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 10 | There 's a small place where I think we could slip over the German border into Switzerland . |