Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [adv] wanted be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I really wanted was the nigger , or mibbe the navy . |
| 2 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |
| 3 | WHAT I REALLY WANTED WAS SOMETHING DRY , YET LIGHT AND EXPRESSIVE |
| 4 | What I really wanted was something dry , yet light and expressive . |
| 5 | I think what I really wanted was … domination . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ By then , I knew that what I really wanted was to become a designer . ’ |
| 7 | Clockwork trains were all very well , but what I really wanted were electric trains . |
| 8 | What she really wanted was to go on the pill , but as her doctor was a close family friend , she could n't face asking him . |
| 9 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 10 | Oh yes , very tasteful , sir , a very speaking likeness I 'm sure , and such tactility in the brushwork , but what we really wanted was a while-you-wait snapshot , a quid the strip of four down the machine . |
| 11 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 12 | ‘ I had plenty of Lego , but what they really wanted were the expensive toys they saw advertised on children 's TV . ’ |
| 13 | What he really wanted was a two-tier price structure , with inaccessible places of ‘ secondary importance ’ facing a surcharge . |
| 14 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 15 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
| 16 | What he really wanted was to get rid of Bagshot . |
| 17 | I think what he really wanted was an outline of the parish . |