Example sentences of "he had always want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 2 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 3 | That 's what he had always wanted to do , and Klepner was his advance guard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was able to live quite comfortably from the fruits of his labours but he had always wanted just a little more land . |
| 6 | ‘ One day , ’ says Andrew , ‘ he said he had always wanted to be a father . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had always wanted to do something creative , but had so far failed to find a suitable medium — then he discovered photography . |
| 11 | The yellow birdbath he had always wanted . |