Example sentences of "i wanted to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go because I wanted to be rich . |
| 2 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 3 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 4 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 6 | I wanted to be sure I could establish myself , become ‘ somebody ’ , before I told him what I was doing . |
| 7 | I wanted to be sure that I was doing the right thing and would n't regret it . |
| 8 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 9 | I was worried about you , I wanted to be sure you were all right . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There are two reasons why I wanted to be sure that I met up with you after school today . ’ |
| 11 | When he did not speak , but just jerked his head as if a fly had buzzed near his ear and irritated him , when he did not greet her , not even by name , let alone with the caressing words she had so often uttered in her games of make-believe , Rosa began , murmuringly , ‘ I did n't know when to come down , I wanted to be sure no one was awake … . ’ |
| 12 | I wanted to be sure of you , you see . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I wanted to be sure you were in . |
| 14 | actually agreeing to that quotation , I wanted to be sure what the other figures were . |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to be close , ’ Maria asserted shakily , uncaring in her agony of how much she revealed . |
| 16 | I wanted to be honest and say I 'd |
| 17 | ‘ I wanted to be involved in the actual process of taking decisions and making policies . |
| 18 | But I wanted to be involved with a company who was well into the swing of tube amps and take it on from there , and so I started with Ampeg in 1990 . ’ |
| 19 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 20 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 21 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 22 | I wanted to be non-controversial , popular with people . ’ |
| 23 | I did n't want to talk to anyone , you know , but I wanted to be near people . |
| 24 | I did not want our enemy to know I was here , but I wanted to be near enough to make sure that you and Sir Henry were safe . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't want something too fussy , ’ said Fiona , ‘ both because it 's my second time around and because I wanted to be able to wear the dress again ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I wanted to be able to produce instruments which would look attractive , and could be tailored to any individual requirements , and still be available at reasonable cost . |
| 27 | I have seen what graphics packages on more sophisticated computers were able to produce , but I wanted to be able to use this with the knitting machine . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to be able to do my own thing — and to be able to play with other people . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 30 | Before I could say , ‘ You bastards ’ , they were specks in the mist as I huddled from the blizzard behind a boulder wondering if I wanted to be sick yet . |