Example sentences of "not wanted to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier . |
| 2 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 3 | She had n't wanted to be sensible or clever . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 5 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 6 | The truth was she had n't wanted to be a housewife at all : she had wanted someone else to do the washing and the shopping and the cooking and to mind the child while she breakfasted with clients . |
| 7 | She 'd been required to be beautiful and talented and independent , but she had n't wanted to be any of those things . |