Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] want [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the variety and wit , also the musical sense , I found wanting in Nucci ( Decca ) is displayed here , placing Bruson almost in the class of Tibbett ( Panizza/Music and Arts ) and Valdengo ( Toscanini/RCA ) in the two historic sets recently issued on CD , and — like those baritones — Bruson has precisely the weight the role calls for . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd wanted to be an actor since I was seven , ’ he says . |
| 8 | I could n't have avoided it if I 'd wanted to . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd wanted to be a nurse or a policewoman , but I had to leave school right away and help support my family . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I could have told you if I 'd wanted to . |
| 13 | I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity . |
| 14 | ‘ No , Mother Francis said that they would n't take me , even if I did want to be a nun , until I was over twenty-one . ’ |
| 15 | " No , but I did want to be a good wife to you and mother said men did n't like weaklings . |
| 16 | To be honest , I suppose I did want to , but … well , Madeleine was very young and uncertain of herself , her feelings . |
| 17 | The ones that I did want with turtles on it never had any socks . |
| 18 | Right from the very start I had wanted to be a test-pilot . |
| 19 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 20 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 21 | I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes . |
| 22 | Phoning a third time to give details of the re-arranged flight , nobody seemed to want of know . |
| 23 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I would n't have thought you 'd wanted to , that was the thing . |
| 26 | " She could have married , if she 'd wanted to . " |
| 27 | ‘ Your grandmother had enough money to buy a home if she 'd wanted to , ’ Lucenzo observed in a soft growl . |
| 28 | She could have killed me if she 'd wanted to … |
| 29 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 30 | 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 . |