Example sentences of "wanted to [be] leave [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | I simply wanted to be left alone . |
3 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
4 | She said it was a poetic way of saying you wanted to be left alone . ’ |
5 | Even so , she wanted to be left alone . |
6 | She wanted to be left alone just as she was , wherever she was , but the people would not leave her alone . |
7 | Said he wanted to be left alone . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | She wanted to be left alone . |
10 | She very obviously wanted to be left alone . |
11 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
12 | She wanted to be left alone , but now the tedium of her resolutely normal life is plastered across 190 pages . |