Example sentences of "what [pron] wanted be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said what I wanted was a pickup to make my guitar sound more like a Les Paul — really fat and not this thin , screechy shit that everyone 's got . |
| 2 | And and what I wanted was a means of identifying whether we 'd achieved any anything over the two days . |
| 3 | Erm well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription , but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before ? |
| 4 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 5 | What I wanted was an area marked ‘ The sort of place where an average girl out on her own wo n't get mugged or raped and she can get a cheap bed for the night , no questions asked . ’ |
| 6 | What she wanted was a baby . |
| 7 | She was furious that he refused to talk about religion except in terms of duty to her parents ; what she wanted was a discussion of Peter Abelard and an immediate place in a convent . |
| 8 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 9 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 10 | What they wanted was a news interview with him . |
| 11 | The buyers in this particular market were very clear that what they wanted was a small loan , for a fixed amount , over a short period , paid weekly to a collector . |
| 12 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 13 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 14 | What he wanted was a position within the Empire — according to the historian Orosius , he wished to support Rome with barbarian arms . |
| 15 | I thought he was asking me what club , so I said , ‘ A 7-iron , ’ but what he wanted was the yardage . |
| 16 | What he wanted was the growth of Land Trusts to replace both the traditional pattern of landownership and its haphazard modern successors . |
| 17 | What he wanted was the main force , mobile and sudden and a prize fit for his steel . |