Example sentences of "[pron] wanted to be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't at all sure she wanted to be shown this short-cut through the woods , although Isabelle must have used it many times , when she was living at Les Hiboux and working at the château . |
| 2 | Even so , she wanted to be left alone . |
| 3 | She wanted to be left alone just as she was , wherever she was , but the people would not leave her alone . |
| 4 | She wanted to be left alone . |
| 5 | She wanted to be left alone , but now the tedium of her resolutely normal life is plastered across 190 pages . |
| 6 | She said it was a poetic way of saying you wanted to be left alone . ’ |
| 7 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 8 | Said he wanted to be left alone . ’ |
| 9 | Wycliffe was not usually so curt with the press , but he was at a stage in the case when he wanted to be left alone to mull over what he knew and to decide what more he needed to know . |