Example sentences of "wish i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 2 | Wish I 'd been there . |
| 3 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |
| 4 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 5 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 6 | She said sharply , ‘ My romantic novels enabled you girls to have a carefree life , the sort of life I wish I 'd been able to give your father . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 8 | I wish I 'd been there to see . ’ |
| 9 | Looking back I wish I 'd been more courageous . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I 'd been older on the Drive , ’ said Nooty . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish I 'd been there to hear it . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 13 | ‘ How I wish I had been there ! ’ said Gildas , not for the first time . |
| 14 | I wish I had been there . |
| 15 | I just wish I had been a man , that 's all . |
| 16 | I wish I had been able to help . |
| 17 | I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) . |
| 18 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 19 | Some people might think I was approached by Harper Collins with a check for half a million pounds and asked to write the book — in a way I wish I had been . |
| 20 | ‘ I genuinely wish I had been killed off , ’ says the Huyton-born star . |