Example sentences of "would have wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Culley , he said , ‘ Well , I 'd 've wanted to know that too , I guess . ’ |
| 2 | If I 'd have wanted to go |
| 3 | There 's no one he 'd have wanted seeing him dead less than me , and the feeling was mutual . |
| 4 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 5 | If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer . |
| 6 | ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself . |
| 7 | I did n't wan na go the hospital 'cos they 'd have wanted to know how I did it and I would have had to turkey in there . |
| 8 | Germon said , ‘ Obviously we 'd have wanted to get back to continue if we 'd been in ( ND skipper ) David White 's shoes . ’ |
| 9 | No , no it was very much a green field area , and I think if they 'd have wanted to get bomb anywhere they 'd have been directed at Castle Bromwich , which were very much they were building Lancasters and Sterlings and they were very much the heart of the British bomber industry . |
| 10 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 11 | I 'd have wanted to run there at once . |
| 12 | I 'd have wanted to wipe you out — forget all about you , too . ’ |
| 13 | The papers are his business — not that he 'd have wanted to start a fire . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't think he 'd have wanted to jump off a cliff or anything , but I think it bothered him — you know , the weight gain and things like that . ’ |
| 15 | No one would have wanted to listen . ’ |
| 16 | Dr Barbara Burrell of the University of Cincinnati commented , ‘ Some experts have suggested that the palace 's position between the theatre and the stadium may not be consistent with Herod 's personality as a paranoid who would have wanted to distance himself from the people of the city of Caeserea . |
| 17 | If Michael Heseltine had won the leadership in November 1990 , he would have wanted to call an immediate general election . |
| 18 | All right , so he had a flat , but it was n't exactly the kind of place that Warren Beatty would have wanted to call home . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're at a very early stage in all this , Minister , but can you think of anyone who would have wanted to harm Miss Morgan ? ’ |
| 20 | His best friend says it was the way he would have wanted to go |
| 21 | She were up sick all night , but I do n't think she , she would have wanted to go anyway . |
| 22 | ‘ She would have wanted to continue , yes . |
| 23 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 24 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |
| 25 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 26 | I took my parents when I , my son was two and a half , and I can honestly say that my son , I was n't able to devote as much time as I would have wanted to give . |
| 27 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 28 | Benny looked so worried that anyone would have wanted to take her in their arms and stroke her , even though she was bigger than most people around . |
| 29 | And Arabella knew she was pregnant — she would have wanted to take care . |
| 30 | Steven Spielberg 's dinosaurs are frightening enough … but none of the experts would have wanted to encounter a real-life sea dragon . |