Example sentences of "[verb] always wanted [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rejoined Birmingham as No 2 to Terry Cooper but has always wanted a top job of his own . |
| 2 | Green-fingered Jim , who has always wanted a garden of his own , is delighted about the move . |
| 3 | Green-fingered Jim , who has always wanted a garden of his own , is delighted . |
| 4 | She said she 'd always wanted a grown-up daughter to be real friends with . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd always wanted a little girl , but one of the students at the door told me I had a beautiful little boy and he was fine . |
| 6 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd always wanted a farm , although I had no experience of it at all . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Now , young Quince , ’ he said , ‘ you 've always wanted a spot of real detective work to do . |
| 9 | Or ‘ I 've always wanted a bird 's eye view of the garden ’ ? |
| 10 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 11 | I 've always wanted a sheath knife . |
| 12 | I 've always wanted a friend like that . ’ |
| 13 | I 've always wanted a sister ! ’ |
| 14 | what Ken say I 've always wanted a pedestal |
| 15 | I 've always wanted an en suite bathroom , she would say to visitors , to her friends on the phone , to , he would n't be surprised , tradesmen on the doorstep or strangers she accosted in the street . |
| 16 | I had always wanted a big family , and we were fortunate enough to be allowed to adopt another little girl . |
| 17 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 18 | He said how much his parents were looking forward to meeting Liza , especially as they had always wanted a daughter . |
| 19 | ‘ Bernard had always wanted a Swiss Buser and as we only had to pay £1,500 for it he was very impatient to see it work , like a small boy with a new toy . |
| 20 | Ianthe had always wanted a house of her own and as soon as she had shut the door behind her she forgot the lonely homecoming in the pleasure she still felt at seeing her furniture and possessions in their new setting . |
| 21 | She had always wanted an animal of her own , and so she began to feel a little interest in Dickon . |
| 22 | Franklin , as a Lancashire man , had always wanted the Blackpool job , and had regarded his appointment to Rochdale in 1951 as a stepping-stone to Blackpool . |
| 23 | I have always wanted a dining room under glass , so we are having a conservatory built along with a super , big kitchen complete with labour-saving appliances , including a microwave , which I find particularly good for cooking fish ; I do n't believe in ‘ sweatshop ’ kitchens . |