Forming past regrets

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you

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subject had not so had the verb there

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telling us that this is a past uh

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sentence if only you hadn't left using

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the past participle the rubbish on the

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floor and I could continue that sentence

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I wouldn't have tripped over if only I

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had studied harder at school I would be

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a lawyer now for example we can use wish

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in a similar structure I wish I had

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learned how to drive when I was

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17 I wish I had learned how to sew from

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my mother