Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | A butterfly he has always wanted to catch . |
| 2 | Although having trained as a general physiotherapist he has always wanted to specialise in sports injuries . |
| 3 | He 'd even wanted him to . |
| 4 | She was a beauty and he 'd often wanted to steal a kiss , but had had enough sense not to try . |
| 5 | In the train , in the tunnel , he asked her things he 'd often wanted to ask , but never dared . |
| 6 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 7 | ‘ He said he 'd always wanted to be a dad ’ |
| 8 | He said he 'd always wanted to see St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 9 | He said he 'd always wanted to meet you , so we brought them all over . ’ |
| 10 | He 'd always wanted to be a blacksmith and he learned by doing the job . |
| 11 | He 'd never wanted to screw anyone more in his life , but gently he disengaged himself . |
| 12 | That he 'd never wanted you ? |
| 13 | ROBBIE When it all happened , when I got thrown out of the school , he said he 'd never wanted to adopt anyway , it was my mother 's idea , not his , it was to make her happy . |
| 14 | She might love her husband , but in exchange he 'd never wanted anything from her except sex , and she was n't even sure if he wanted that since he 'd been forced into marrying her . |
| 15 | But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life . |
| 16 | He had badly wanted to sign off with a first victory in Adelaide and a record 10th in a single season . |
| 17 | He found he was angry with himself for leaving his seat ; he had badly wanted to hear what his father was about to say , but the all-too-familiar sound of him praising his brother had produced its usual feeling of agitation . |
| 18 | He was talking about his childhood in Wales and how he had once wanted to be a detective . |
| 19 | Neither would he , because all he had ever wanted was her love . |
| 20 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 21 | Was it possible that he had actually wanted her to turn his offer down ? |
| 22 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 23 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 24 | That 's what he had always wanted to do , and Klepner was his advance guard . |
| 25 | On the other hand , McQueen , seven years Dustin 's senior , envied the other 's reputation as a fine actor , something he had always wanted for himself . |
| 26 | He was able to live quite comfortably from the fruits of his labours but he had always wanted just a little more land . |
| 27 | ‘ One day , ’ says Andrew , ‘ he said he had always wanted to be a father . |
| 28 | Walsh was ecstatic : now the paper was looking far beyond the Right-On supporters ' group and being told what he had always wanted to believe — there was a large group of solid working-class people fed up with the frivolity in the existing tabloids . |
| 29 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 30 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |