Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [pron] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 2 | Horses and wagon were what they wanted , and what they took , for all we could do to stop them . |
| 3 | She had asked if there were anything I wanted from England , and I asked her to bring a large , old-fashioned teddy bear for my small Greek godson , George . |
| 4 | She could n't reply , he was holding her so tightly ; and , in any case , there was nothing she wanted to say . |
| 5 | On the one hand there was nothing she wanted to do more , but on the other , well , she objected strongly to being at his beck and call . |
| 6 | For an instant there was nothing she wanted more than to feel the heat of them on hers . |
| 7 | There was nothing she wanted to train for . |
| 8 | ‘ There was nothing I wanted , ’ she said , ‘ I was quite happy for you to have them , Dorothea . |
| 9 | I felt uneasy and depressed and tried to cheer myself up shopping , but there was nothing I wanted and I caught any early train home . |
| 10 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |
| 11 | But it was me she wanted to talk to now . |
| 12 | The first time it was me who wanted a divorce , but the second time it was n't my choice . |
| 13 | Well , it now seemed that there was someone he wanted to see in Glasgow , so he was taking this chance to fit that in . |
| 14 | Almost every interview-but there was somebody he wanted to go back and see . |
| 15 | Well , it was somebody who wanted to know if her treasurer man was here ? |
| 16 | But it was you they wanted to kill ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think it was you they wanted to kill . |
| 18 | No , it was you I wanted to tell . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought it was you who wanted to see me . ’ |
| 20 | It was you who wanted to keep away from villages . |
| 21 | ‘ It was you who wanted to come , ’ said Betty , irritated . |
| 22 | Interviewed on TV-am , Dr Owen said the choice facing voters was who they wanted as Prime Minister . |
| 23 | She was everything he wanted — all ambition , all love , all comfort , all need , all passion embodied in Carla . |
| 24 | Order for her did not exist but was something she wanted to impose on the class . |
| 25 | I — she — there was something she wanted to know which I can now tell her . ’ |
| 26 | Most potently , it was something she wanted to hear . |
| 27 | Maybe behind the gush there was something she wanted to say but was n't brazen enough to bring out too openly . |
| 28 | It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive . |
| 29 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 30 | It was something I wanted to try out somewhere else . |