Example sentences of "all i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I wanted to smell from now on was the fragrance of England which Aisha exuded . |
| 2 | In Pakistan all that changed , all I wanted was the bed on which to lie alone . |
| 3 | I know , sir , all I wanted was to wish an old hero a happy birthday . |
| 4 | ‘ All I wanted was to get moved in somewhere nice before he comes back . ’ |
| 5 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 6 | All I wanted was The Marriage of Figaro , live from the Met in New York . |
| 7 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 8 | . I was ill as well as desolate , and all I wanted was to hide my wretchedness from everyone . ’ |
| 9 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 10 | All I wanted to do was run for my country , to be part of the action . |
| 11 | All I wanted to do was to get away , but Karen refused point-blank . |
| 12 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 13 | All I wanted once was to stay where I was . |
| 14 | ‘ All I wanted was a signed photograph or something like that . ’ |
| 15 | At that moment all I wanted to hear was more of her story , but she 'd lost interest in that now . |
| 16 | I could see the mood Dad was in and all I wanted to do was to make myself scarce before they started to quarrel . |
| 17 | All I wanted to do was talk . |
| 18 | Have I written all I wanted to write about the room , or have I left out something important ? |
| 19 | ‘ It was terrible having to be seen as a human being when all I wanted to do was be a bean . ’ |
| 20 | That was all I wanted , not to climb into a white Rolls-Royce and wave to fans at premières and all that . |
| 21 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 22 | Quite early , I made up my mind that all I wanted to be was a top flight boxer , to follow Jack Johnson in my own way and become the first black British heavyweight champion . |
| 23 | At this time , he said , ‘ All I wanted to do was to live , pick up a new Jag , and act at the Old Vic . ’ |
| 24 | The British theatrical Establishment who thought he aspired to be their new idol would be puzzled over ‘ All I wanted to do was to live ’ — but they would have let it pass as a Welsh eccentricity ; ‘ to act at the Old Vic ’ would have drawn beams of approval . |
| 25 | ‘ All I wanted to do was to live … ‘ |
| 26 | After all the interviews , TV programmes and everything , all I wanted to do was get on the track again . ’ |
| 27 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 28 | That was all I wanted . |
| 29 | " That is really all I wanted to see you about . " |
| 30 | All I wanted was an exceptional career for Jean-Claude , for that was what he wanted for himself . |