Example sentences of "wish he have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 2 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 3 | He had insisted on going with her but Carrie was beginning to wish he had stayed in the shop . |
| 4 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 5 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 6 | It also has a detailed chapter on the handling of cross-wind landing gear that I 'll bet Peter Underhill wishes he had read before testing the Helio Courier in our March issue . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish he 'd stayed in there because we wanted to beat him runnin' , not broken . |
| 8 | He pushed the door open and wished he had asked for a candle . |
| 9 | He wished he had danced with her . |
| 10 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 11 | As it happened Paddington was having trouble about what to buy the Brown family for Christmas and he wished he 'd thought of it himself . |
| 12 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 13 | He wished he 'd stuck to Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |