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Can you say "I wish I hadn't got to"?

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00In theory, "I haven't got to do it" should become "I didn't have to do it" in the past. But, can anyone tell me if you can say "I wish I hadn't got to do it"? In this case, it's not really a past, is it? Do you think it is correct? 02br
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0 I would say that "I wish I hadn't got to do it" doesn't carry the same meaning as is implied by the other two. "I wish I hadn't had to do it" would convey the meaning I believe you're trying to express. 02br 00However "I wish I hadn't got to do it" makes sense, if you had won a competition of some kind to be allowed to do something, but now regret winning that competition.

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  • 0 I would say that "I wish I hadn't got to do it" doesn't carry the same meaning as is implied by the other two.
  • "I wish I hadn't had to do it" would convey the meaning I believe you're trying to express.
  • 02br 00However "I wish I hadn't got to do it" makes sense, if you had won a competition of some kind to be allowed to do something, but now regret winning that competition.
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0 I would say that "I wish I hadn't got to do it" doesn't carry the same meaning as is implied by the other two. "I wish I hadn't had to do it" would convey the meaning I believe you're trying to express. 02br
00However "I wish I hadn't got to do it" makes sense, if you had won a competition of some kind to be allowed to do something, but now regret winning that competition. 0-
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0 "I wish I hadn't got to do it" sounds very odd to me. I would think that either it should be "I wish I hadn't gotten to do it," meaning "I wish now that I had not had the opportunity to do it" or that it's just an incorrect version of "I wish I didn't have to do it," meaning "I wish I was not required to do it." Unless it's some British or perhaps archaic consturction that I'm unfamiliar wit
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0 I don't think the "opportunity" meaning of "to get to do something" enters into this question, but rather "I've got to do something" meaning "I have to do something". 02br
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00I think that maybe only the British use the past tense of "I've got to do it": "I had got to do it" = "I had to do it". And then, maybe not even they use it. 02br
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