Example sentences of "[pron] wanted me " in BNC.

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1 I missed the joy of knowing , in the back of my mind , that someone wanted me , that sometimes , when we could manage it , I could escape from the world of work , washing and worrying into a place of pure pleasure .
2 They asked me if I wanted me P forty five framed or unframed .
3 If somebody 's would l if somebody wanted me to sing I really would like to know er because
4 I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time .
5 She wanted me to stay as I was , the way she had created me .
6 She wanted me to go with her . ’
7 She wanted me to marry her ! ’
8 ‘ Did n't she tell you she wanted me to come to California like she wrote me ? ’
9 Now she wanted me to help her edit it into shape .
10 I left home at 15 to become a footballer , she was really proud of me ; she encouraged me to go but I know she wanted me at home .
11 She wanted me to take her back .
12 She wanted me to go to her rooms in Bloomsbury that night , to talk things over .
13 She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me .
14 She reminded me what she wanted me to do , then as we neared our house I became frightened that she would fall foul of Mum .
15 ‘ She did n't want to go — but she wanted me to walk her downstairs .
16 We make all our decisions together and if she wanted me to pack it all in I would . ’
17 ‘ Why did n't you tell me she wanted me out ? ’
18 ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do .
19 She always encouraged me academically ; she wanted me to become a lawyer .
20 She wanted me to phone a number in Zagreb to find out if her husband , who had gone to Yugoslavia for an operation on his liver just before the war , was alive or dead .
21 Encouraging me to follow in this way perhaps , but moving too fast for me to believe that she wanted me to do that , she entered a revolving door of dark polished wood , mahogany and glass , and started to go round and round , looking out at me as she turned .
22 I wish I knew what she was doing , and what she wanted me to do .
23 She wanted me to say , Please come to London with me .
24 She wanted me to believe that there was a relation to a universal spirit .
25 She wanted me to overlook the letters .
26 She kneaded me , all right , she wanted me transformed into puff pastry just like Daddy .
27 When my father died there were a lot of quarrels between my mother and I. I 'd always lived with my father , so I did n't know her , or how she wanted me to be .
28 She wanted me .
29 She wanted me to make love to ha .
30 She did n't tell me what I was doing , so all right , I pushed , and I gave birth to the afterbirth and thought , Oh , that 's why she wanted me to push .
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