Example sentences of "wished she be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sends my mother presents and letters and once confessed to me she wished she was a lesbian . |
| 2 | She wished she was too . |
| 3 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 4 | Kate wished she was at the pantomime . |
| 5 | She wished she was anywhere but Grantley at this moment . |
| 6 | She wished she was sixteen . |
| 7 | She wished she was at hairdressing college . |
| 8 | She wished she was at home in bed ! |
| 9 | So slow and patient was the seduction that she almost wished she was bisexual . |
| 10 | She wished she was a better person . |
| 11 | I wished she was beside me , naked . |
| 12 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 13 | Bernice almost wished she was out there in the refectory so that she could confront Legion . |
| 14 | She only wished she was any good at the game herself , which unfortunately she was n't . |
| 15 | Stephen wished she was n't always there . |
| 16 | He wished she was n't for ever tapping on the door of the room that was meant to be his , calling out to him when he did n't answer . |
| 17 | She wished she was grown-up , brisk and able to cope . |
| 18 | Louisa looked away , out of the window — how she wished she was out there in the frosty air , in the simplicity of the Lodge , alone , in the one place where her tarnished star-fire might begin to gleam again . |
| 19 | Oh , she wished she was back home . |
| 20 | She wished she was n't offended that he did n't rush to assure her that she was n't that bad a waitress . |
| 21 | She found that she stayed quite dry there , but she wished she were somewhere else ! |
| 22 | She wished she were not still so flat , wished the baby would grow quickly . |
| 23 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 24 | She wished she were as innocent as those children again . |
| 25 | Now he was behaving as though he wished she were somewhere — anywhere — else . |
| 26 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 27 | Oh , dear lord , how she wished she were . |
| 28 | She wished she were n't so aware of the sarcasm that lay behind his words . |
| 29 | She wished she were n't so naïve as far as men were concerned . |
| 30 | She glanced up at the blackened night sky , pin-pointed with stars so wondrous that it made her feel like crying , and wished she were home , warm and safe in bed . |