Example sentences of "would [verb] wished " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't own a pair of binoculars , so I could n't observe the birds as closely as I 'd have wished , but I had something much closer to watch . |
| 2 | He 'd have wished to own her , body and soul , to possess her . |
| 3 | The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway . |
| 4 | Private enterprise-led , of course , as the Government would have wished . |
| 5 | Poor Daddy would have wished it . |
| 6 | And Germany 's self-absorption with unity meant that its response to the Gulf challenge was feebler than the Germanophiles would have wished . |
| 7 | By so doing they colluded in the evils that they would have wished to remedy had they faced them fair and square . |
| 8 | So things have changed , and the change is reflected , as Snow would have wished , in the school curriculum . |
| 9 | He could not be returned , as he would have wished , to his pre-birth environment , but he was put into a close facsimile of it immediately . |
| 10 | ‘ So , you know of no one from that time who would have wished your husband dead ? ’ |
| 11 | Her face is comely enough to take short hair , though perfectionists might say that the grey-green eyes are a little close-set , and the nose and chin are a centimetre longer than Robyn herself would have wished . |
| 12 | You see , I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now . ’ |
| 13 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
| 14 | With that perspective , it is perhaps not surprising to discover that decision makers often find the external information delivered to them by knowledge workers to be not as valuable in helping to solve the task in hand as they would have wished . |
| 15 | I can not think of anything that happened that day which I would have wished otherwise . |
| 16 | Maybe I 'm being unkind , but they were n't too friendly , did n't shout out ‘ Haway , come on … thou might as well join us , ’ as one would have wished . |
| 17 | Again through the help of kind neighbours I was able to visit him now and again , though not as often as one would have wished . |
| 18 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 19 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact it shall be so very shortly — my lord would have wished it so ! ’ |
| 21 | Mossy , a little like Sean Walsh , would have wished that the kitchen and living quarters of the Hogan household were more separate . |
| 22 | In front of Fraser , Ramsay himself had to be more restrained than he would have wished , but at least Agnes 's cheerful kisses allowed him to bestow a like greeting on her sister , Fraser looking on somewhat askance . |
| 23 | Whenever possible you should try to co-ordinate the colour of the ribbon with that of the flowers , otherwise the effect may not be as successful as you would have wished . |
| 24 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 25 | ‘ One wonders , had he been able to have a say , whether he would have wished to inflict this level of strain on those around him . |
| 26 | ‘ The fifth hurdle was n't quite as smooth as I would have wished , but then I let go from the 200 metres mark . |
| 27 | ‘ The fifth hurdle was n't quite as smooth as I would have wished , but then I let go from the 200 metres mark . |
| 28 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 29 | Mr Ellis added : ‘ When we took over the line the state of the locomotives was not as we would have wished so we have embarked on a rebuilding process . ’ |
| 30 | After hearing a terrible denunciation of practices in which he had willingly taken part in the past , we might have expected that he would have wished to have further clarifications before he left Rome , or that some plan of action would have been agreed . |