Example sentences of "wish i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look the model for all virginal brides , and I 'm beginning to wish I 'd let that awful shroud remain in your case . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd be wishing I 'll Christmas birthday coming |
| 3 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 4 | And I — wishing I could say something really imposing , like Montmorency or Fitzpomeroy — said trenchantly : ‘ The name is Smith . ’ |
| 5 | I was showing this off in my first week — wishing I could walk on my hands too , like my father — when I broke the bed 's cast-iron frame . |
| 6 | I stared around , sweating , wishing I could go and lock myself in my nice safe ship . |
| 7 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 8 | " Do you wish I 'd go away ? " |
| 9 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 10 | There have been fund-raising events , back-to-school meetings and enough notes sent home to make me wish I could employ a filing clerk . |
| 11 | I do wish I could find more energy to get on with it . |
| 12 | I wish I may , I wish I might … |
| 13 | I wish I may , I wish I might … |
| 14 | I wish I may not be too fond and make him indifferent . |
| 15 | I wish I may see it ! ’ |
| 16 | So really , I wo I wish I would have gone there . |
| 17 | Wish I would have gone . |
| 18 | God , I wish I 'd never come to this bloody school . |
| 19 | I do n't know what to do and I wish I 'd never become involved . |
| 20 | As she was to tell one of her oldest friends : ‘ I only wish I 'd put my foot down with them years ago . ’ |
| 21 | And I , I , I mean I 've r now that we , Walsall 's got their own department I wish I 'd of kept on to it , it 'd of been interesting . |
| 22 | I almost wish I 'd become a cop-car driver instead of a journalist now ; this is such sweet driving . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish I 'd never come to Thornfield ! ’ |
| 24 | I thought : ‘ I wish I 'd ha' went instead of me telling him I 'd stop with four hands . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I 'd come years ago ! ’ |
| 26 | I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher . |
| 27 | you know , quite , But I 'd wished I 'd , I wish I 'd have got those photographs to show off . |
| 28 | I wish I 'd have carried on with piano lessons . |
| 29 | I wish I 'd put a jumper on |
| 30 | I wish I 'd put on Rich . |