Example sentences of "[vb past] want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I could have got her to believe that , if I 'd wanted to . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd wanted to mooch round Bristol 's hills and shops , its hidden alleyways and markets , along all those rivers . |
| 4 | I 'd wanted to . |
| 5 | He could n't have got rid of them anyway , even if he 'd wanted to . |
| 6 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 7 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd wanted to be an actor since I was seven , ’ he says . |
| 9 | I could n't have avoided it if I 'd wanted to . |
| 10 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 11 | I 'd wanted to be a nurse or a policewoman , but I had to leave school right away and help support my family . |
| 12 | If they 'd known it , if they 'd wanted to , they could have got me to do anything in those minutes . |
| 13 | ‘ He could 've left if he 'd wanted to , ’ said Betty . |
| 14 | Florrie Tremayne went on regardless : ‘ And poor old Alfred with his shop ; he 'd wanted to be a doctor , a GP , plodding along in some backwater for forty years , supported by a sufficient number of loyal patients who hung on his words and swallowed his medicines with no fuss . |
| 15 | " She could have married , if she 'd wanted to . " |
| 16 | ‘ Your grandmother had enough money to buy a home if she 'd wanted to , ’ Lucenzo observed in a soft growl . |
| 17 | If they 'd wanted to . |
| 18 | She could have killed me if she 'd wanted to … |
| 19 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 20 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 21 | I could have told you if I 'd wanted to . |
| 22 | She had n't conceded anything , even though she 'd wanted to , and she 'd shown him she could be just as determined as he was himself . |
| 23 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 24 | I would n't have thought you 'd wanted to , that was the thing . |
| 25 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 26 | But he seemed to want to be a man of mystery , want to bamboozle her . |
| 27 | After that the First Lady started wanting to be a wife , mother and grandmother again . |
| 28 | What , what did you get for the fir , or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished . |
| 29 | Perhaps he did want to be in the team ? |
| 30 | I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity . |