Example sentences of "she wanted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to : Jay could not bear people suffering . |
| 2 | She would see– him occasionally for the rest of her life , and she wanted to be able to chat to him , invite him for more games of chess , more visits to historic gardens . |
| 3 | She wanted to be able to sit there and be like them , to sit there and sip Coke and not to have to worry about whether she would laugh at the right moments . |
| 4 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 5 | She wanted to be as mature and sensible as Rachel was , she wanted to be reassuring and maternal and all she could do was cling to Maggie and sob and sob . |
| 6 | So this last time she wanted to be in her office , correct and professional at the right time . |
| 7 | State occasion or not , it was her day and she wanted to be surrounded by her friends . |
| 8 | That was the reason she wanted to be alone with the visitor . |
| 9 | Philip knew that she was irritated by his being there , that she wanted to be on her own . |
| 10 | She wanted to be like a star . |
| 11 | She wanted to be carried . |
| 12 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 13 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 14 | When asked what she wanted to be when she was a child , she admits : ‘ Probably famous , like every other kid . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a very important step for her , and typically she wanted to be in control of it , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Really , she could wear sleeveless dresses if she wanted to . |
| 17 | She felt hung over , and a million miles from the bed she wanted to be asleep in . |
| 18 | She wanted to be sick . |
| 19 | Indeed , Prussian hegemony fitted into precisely the gap between the two since , where centralisation took place , it was invariably convergence with Prussia , yet the commitment to remain centralised allowed her to defend her interests when she wanted to . |
| 20 | She had n't become a whore because she wanted to ; it was because the money of perverted old men had offered her an easy way out of poverty — those same old men who would clamour for the investigation to be dropped . |
| 21 | ‘ But Christabel 's out on the edge , in the wind and the rain , where she wanted to be . |
| 22 | She wanted to be loved for her kindness , and that would spoil her reputation … |
| 23 | Six months had been too long and she wanted to be home . |
| 24 | When I spoke to Mrs. Olinton she said that Mr. Olinton was so set against Scouts and Guides that he would n't even let his own daughter , Jessica , join Brownies , although she wanted to . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Jessica Olinton is in my class at school , and she did tell me she wanted to be a Brownie but her daddy would n't let her . ’ |
| 26 | She wanted to , she really did , but she needed to be made to feel she could , or rather that she could n't not , that it was out of her hands , that she could n't help herself . |
| 27 | He wanted to touch June more than she wanted to be touched and he was bitterly upset that June was rejecting him sexually . |
| 28 | Not that she wanted to ; the cold silence of the night was itself a release from the warm clammy room and her mother 's muttered claims on her , claims from which there would be no escape until death . |
| 29 | When Sarah herself left school at the age of 18 , she was n't sure whether she wanted to be a teacher or a nurse . |
| 30 | She then had to visualize walking slowly towards them , knowing that she could stop whenever she wanted to so that she did not feel that she was being compelled to go near these birds . |