Example sentences of "wished [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I wished I could see her . |
| 2 | I wished I could be a fly on the wall . |
| 3 | I wished I could say : ‘ This is nothing to do with my book . |
| 4 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 5 | I looked at him and wished I could be so unconcerned . |
| 6 | I wished I could help him then ; he looked so down in the mouth hunched up by the stove . |
| 7 | I wished I could have told Nigel : he would have loved it . |
| 8 | I wished I could say yes , I minded like hell , it would n't cost me much in the circumstances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The first time I saw them , I wished I could be a Gnat . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 14 | As I looked sadly at my hands and boots , I remembered that I was only a common working boy , and wished I could be different . |
| 15 | I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian . |
| 16 | When Lili stopped speaking I wished I could ask her to repeat what she had said , but already she was lighting a cigarette and talking about linen . |
| 17 | I wished I could be sick on my mother 's wedding dress . |
| 18 | I wished I could turn to stone , or put down roots like the spotted laurel and forever let the adjusting wind tweak and fiddle with my clothes to no purpose . |
| 19 | I wished I could , for I could n't forget that what she had said had seemed significant , and of greater , stronger import than anything she had said since she had come back . |
| 20 | And I said I wished I could go and sniff the various scents to see which I liked best . |
| 21 | I wished I could direct her to bring the ship to my rescue . |
| 22 | But the family were often sad , and I wished I could make them happy . |
| 23 | I wished I could get it permed again . |
| 24 | Ricard vanished and I wished I could follow him . |
| 25 | As on Friday , no one seemed to notice me and certainly no one challenged me as I walked through to Patterson 's office whistling cheerfully ( a Tommy Smith riff which I wished I could transfer from his tenor sax to my battered trumpet ) and holding a plan of the air-conditioning system out in front of me . |
| 26 | It was a nice flat with a good view and as I let myself into Stuart Street , I wished I could remember how to find it again . |
| 27 | ‘ It is upsetting and I wished I could have stayed . |
| 28 | Negotiating her way home , Jay wished she could borrow some of Jamie 's crowd-quelling chutzpah to face Lucy . |
| 29 | She wished she could turn back the clock . |
| 30 | There were times , as Mhoira once wryly remarked , when she wished she could join the Masons or even use the gents ' lavatory . |