Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no family to help her ; his wanted none of us . |
| 2 | I wanted to see if I could experience it . |
| 3 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 4 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 5 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 6 | In fact I found Shakespeare very difficult to get on with and was n't at all sure that I wanted to . |
| 7 | The only one I ever felt got near to saying what I wanted to say . |
| 8 | I knew what I wanted , but I could n't find it . |
| 9 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 10 | I wanted to but I could n't . |
| 11 | I wanted to give him supper but he said he would take sandwiches up to his room and get on with his work . |
| 12 | The sense of its otherness , he wrote , just as I wanted it , an alien object , one never before seen on our planet , not quite animal , not quite mineral , not quite vegetable , yet familiar , familiar . |
| 13 | What he wanted , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) and what I wanted . |
| 14 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 15 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 16 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 17 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 18 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 19 | I no longer know what I wanted , I said . |
| 20 | Phoned Moira and told her I wanted it out as soon as possible ; if she would n't have it I would find someone who would . |
| 21 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 22 | He was very pragmatic about why he had been drawn to cinema ‘ I came into films not because I wanted to make films . |
| 23 | With REMEMBRANCE I wanted to avoid the central figure , the hero . |
| 24 | It was something I wanted to try out somewhere else . |
| 25 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 26 | Basically , if I wanted another job I was going to have to lie — and I was n't very good at that . |
| 27 | I wanted you to know that . |
| 28 | I came here because I wanted to get away , only … ’ |
| 29 | But before I go , I wanted you to understand what 's happened to me . |
| 30 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |