Example sentences of "do wish " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do wish everyone would stop writing me off just because I happen to be fifty . ’ |
| 2 | I do wish he had n't said that last bit . |
| 3 | And I do wish you would n't swear like that when you talk about business . |
| 4 | But you do now , darling , and I do wish you would n't . |
| 5 | ‘ Ooh , Dot , I do wish I 'd took you . |
| 6 | I do wish you could come out and see . |
| 7 | ‘ I do wish you would not laugh at me , Isabel . |
| 8 | ‘ I do wish we could help her — somehow , ’ sighed Christine . |
| 9 | ‘ But I do wish you 'd let Granny Fordham stay on in her cottage , ’ she added . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’ |
| 11 | The sound is acceptable enough ; but I do wish that companies which release older recordings like this would spend just a little more ( what would it cost ? ) to accompany them with notes worthy even of the music as slight as this . |
| 12 | I do wish we had some nice relations you could go and stay with . |
| 13 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 14 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 15 | The man he displaced , Humfrey Malins , used to shake his head and say , ‘ I do wish Malcolm would go away . |
| 16 | ‘ Mama , she is so like our sister-in-law — I do wish she could stay with us , ’ said nine-year-old Anne who had a special affinity with her namesake . |
| 17 | ‘ I do wish to know more about it . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Aunt Louise , ’ Constance cried , ‘ I do wish you had n't . |
| 19 | Yeah I am , but I do wish it was in better condition . |
| 20 | Certainly we do wish sometimes to say this of animals and , strictly by analogy and with the appropriate language-game in mind , justifiably do so . |
| 21 | I do wish the Americans had n't this love of trainloads of initial letters to designate an organization . |
| 22 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 23 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 24 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 25 | ‘ I do wish 'e 'd ‘ urry up , ’ she groaned aloud . |
| 26 | But I do wish Preston could sing as well . |
| 27 | However , I do wish Preiser would bestir themselves and provide proper documentation . |
| 28 | But we do wish to point out how sharply the transnationalist challenge breaks with the other approaches that have dominated the subject . |
| 29 | and its lasted the memory of it and I do wish I had reported it or at least gone to the library staff . |
| 30 | ‘ Adam , I do wish you would n't spring these things on me when I 'm not expecting them . ’ |