Example sentences of "wish [pron] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 2 | She was nineteen , the age Maria had been when she had first felt the power of Luke 's attraction , and Maria regarded her with ironic envy , wishing she could have reacted as insouciantly , her awe and admiration as impersonal as Penny 's , Luke confined to some remote pedestal along with other out-of-reach heroes , contact undreamed-of . |
| 3 | I reached it , peeled it off sadly , wishing it could have had its liberty , and walked back with it flapping to be free . |
| 4 | More importantly however , everyone enjoyed themselves — I do wish you could have come along . |
| 5 | She was too young to join the forces in Vietnam , but really wishes she could have been there and is now doing her utmost to make up for it . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish I could have done it . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I could have a drink . |
| 8 | I wish I could have stopped it before it got out of hand . |
| 9 | ‘ I just wish , I just wish I could have been there , ’ he blurts out . |
| 10 | ‘ And I wish I could have spared more , for she was worth it . ’ |
| 11 | I only wish I could have hit the third . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You know , ’ said Angalo , ‘ I really wish I could have read more of The Spy With No Trousers . |
| 13 | I WISH I COULD HAVE HEARD THAT . |
| 14 | I wish I could have 2,000 words to write about THE SIZE OF HER HANDS . |
| 15 | I only wish I could have been with Mr Grant when he researched the feature . |
| 16 | I wish I could have said that she was sweetly understanding , but she looked at me as if I were an incubus that had raped her and scraped along the brickwork , desperate to get past . |
| 17 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 18 | you know I only wish I could have heard him |
| 19 | I wish I could have met her , Angel . |
| 20 | ‘ I just wish I could have seen his face clearly for one last time . ’ |
| 21 | How I wish I could have helped him . ’ |
| 22 | I wish I could have a go . |
| 23 | I wished I could have told Nigel : he would have loved it . |
| 24 | 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 . " |
| 25 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 26 | I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian . |
| 27 | ‘ It is upsetting and I wished I could have stayed . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 30 | Elaine wished she could have a marriage like that . |