Example sentences of "i always wanted [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 2 | I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women . |
| 3 | " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents . |
| 4 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 5 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |