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Example sentences for "wish you"

  • Precisely because I love you I acknowledge myself unworthy of you and I wish you to know that if you had asked my hand,--the hand of a girl who has a dowry of a million--I would have ceased to esteem you.

  • It is because I wish you to live to be happy that I refuse to marry," she exclaimed.

  • Only this time it is not for fun, but to do me a favor that I wish you to try again.

  • I wish you'd talk more with me about that.

  • I wish you'd tell me about it," said Thorpe, daringly.

  • I wish you'd tell me what you really think," Thorpe urged her, mildly persuasive.

  • My love to your sister, if you please; and when you see my cousin, my cousin Edmund, I wish you would be so good as to say that I suppose I shall soon hear from him.

  • Good-bye; I wish you a pleasant journey to-morrow.

  • I wish you had my seat, but I dare say you will not take it, let me press you ever so much;" and Miss Crawford could hardly answer before they were moving again at a good pace.

  • I wish you wouldn't take that distant air toward me.

  • Oh, I wish you wouldn't make any disturbance.

  • You'll come out all right, though I wish you didn't have to shut up shop.

  • I wish you'd never gone in with Stener in that way.

  • Well," said Lahoma earnestly, "I wish you'd leave me here when you go after them books.

  • I am sorry this has happened, and so is my men, and we wish you well.

  • You will permit me to wish you a very pleasant evening, and a speedy leave-taking.

  • I wish you good-bye and good fortune, Reginald," she said.

  • My good people," he said blandly, "I wish you all a very good-morning.

  • As an honest woman I wish you to know it.

  • I don't wish you to come against your impulses, as I have said.

  • Jude screwed himself up to heroic key; and replied: MY DEAR SUE,--Of course I wish you joy!

  • I wish you'd mind who you are talking to!

  • And I wish you would go out; I want to bathe.

  • And I wish you wouldn't be so suspicious of motives, Rich," I said warmly.

  • I wish you would go down to the telephone and get the hospital.

  • I wish you wouldn't be so darned cheerful, Richey.

  • I wish you'd tell me plain out if you are the Queen's daughter," I said.

  • And I wish you'd let me try a way I know to dress hair for a wedding.

  • I wish you good-bye, sir, and thank you for the time you've spared me.

  • I wish you were in my new study; I am now writing the first letter in it.

  • To wish you, dear Sir, more leisure, would not be kind; but what leisure you have, you must bestow upon me.

  • You bid me be scrupulously truthful: I am: I wish you to know the different kind of feeling it is from what might be suspected from .

  • And, Miss Middleton, I don't wish you were a boy, but I should like to live near you all my life and be a gentleman.

  • You marry; I wish you to have something by you to remind you of me.

  • I wish you to understand that I have not spoken from any selfish motive," she said.

  • Wish you good-morning, sir, and thank you kindly once more.

  • I wish you to take care of these two letters.

  • I wish you happy, sir--I wish you a kind good-bye.

  • I have a guess that this gallant Chevalier has a design that I should be your proselyte; and, as I wish you to be mine, there cannot be a more fair proposal than to afford us fair conference together.

  • I wish you joy of your taste, Miss Mac-Ivor,' thought Edward, as they sought for his book.

  • And you'll excuse me being that free with you, Master Marner, for I wish you well--I do.

  • And now, gentlemen, I wish you good-morning," said Monte Cristo.

  • I wish you to write from time to time to the captains in charge of the two vessels so as to keep them on the alert.

  • The man said, in a low voice: "I wish--I wish you to spare me the walk back to Paris.

  • My dear Beauchamp, I wish you to contradict this statement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common term; each school; high enough; little fool; our love; outward things; permit the; places where; postage free; quite distinct; skin very; temporal things; the sea; understood that; universal love; wavy hair; will scarcely; wish for; wish that; wish thee; wish them; wish they; wish you were here; wish you would tell; wished himself; wishes were