Sentence examples for i first wished from inspiring English sources

"When I was writing Dubliners," Joyce told Georges Borach, one of his language students, "I first wished to choose the title Ulysses in Dublin, but I gave up the idea.

I was so young I can barely remember when I first wished this would become a reality.

Why did you do the mobile version first?' I wish I was more effective and efficient, and the next game we work on we're going to make sure we keep behind closed doors for much longer.

Selina: First, I wish I had more patience with people back then.

First, I wish I would have known school debt cannot be compartmentalized to one part of my life.

Addressing Steavenson's amalgam of novelistic technique and investigative reporting, one of our readers, Wendy Siera, writes, At first I wished for more clarity — for a cogent storyline.

First, I wished to identify what might be the prototypical incidence of discursive incongruence that ideational grammatical metaphors allow for in each genre (question-and-answer vs. essay) and in each student population (bilingual vs. monolingual).

First, I wished to assess, for each position in the genome, which (if any) of the ancestral genetic backgrounds had become fixed.

I specifically remember the first time I wished that I was older and "had it all".

"I believe that I leave the club in a far stronger position to reclaim its place at a higher level of the Football League than it was when I first arrived and I wish it nothing but continued success for the future".

Not for the first time, I wished I'd been brought up in the Alps.