Example sentences of "wanted [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch . |
| 2 | That 's what we wanted in n it ? |
| 3 | Like any actor who has to play many different parts , all Reagan wanted were a few good lines written for him on cue cards that he could quote without having to tax his own abilities . |
| 4 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 5 | We did of course have problems : the concrete for the foundations arrived an hour early , and caught us frantically putting in the underslab insulation ; the existing house was about three inches out of square ; and the bricks we wanted were out of production . |
| 6 | ‘ I had plenty of Lego , but what they really wanted were the expensive toys they saw advertised on children 's TV . ’ |
| 7 | What he wanted were answers to some of the things they might not have thought of . |
| 8 | Clockwork trains were all very well , but what I really wanted were electric trains . |
| 9 | What the original working party wanted were local measures of ill health — morbidity — by age , sex and marital status . |
| 10 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 11 | But it was n't only criminal records we were interested in , we said we wanted 's medical records too . |
| 12 | The type face we wanted is n't on the the whatsit laser printer . |
| 13 | Odette Smith 's long and sometimes painful struggle to reach the weight she wanted is one that a lot of women ( and men ) will sympathise with . |
| 14 | But I think they make a bit idle because they knew what they knew what I w You know I was able to serve the what they wanted is n't it . |
| 15 | So what you do is you what I wanted is , I , you know you know how if your mother 's gon na recover a sofa it 's it is you know , I I er I recover them . |
| 16 | Jesus , all I ever wanted was to love you , you to love me . ’ |
| 17 | Of parish-pump politics in his old suburban nesting place , Sevenoaks : ‘ While everyone would pretend that a solution was what was wanted when there was a problem , in fact what most people wanted was trouble … |
| 18 | ‘ All they wanted was to get home . |
| 19 | An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 . |
| 20 | All the egg producers wanted was a ‘ fair hearing ’ and to establish a workable framework for testing flocks and protecting public health . |
| 21 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 22 | In Pakistan all that changed , all I wanted was the bed on which to lie alone . |
| 23 | The one thing he never wanted was an acting career — ‘ I 'd seen that … ’ |
| 24 | I know , sir , all I wanted was to wish an old hero a happy birthday . |
| 25 | Wives were given a say for the first time , and what they wanted was romantic practicality . |
| 26 | What he really wanted was a two-tier price structure , with inaccessible places of ‘ secondary importance ’ facing a surcharge . |
| 27 | What the public wanted was a good rail service and not surprisingly successive generations of British Rail managers put their major effort into achieving that . |
| 28 | We made it clear that what we wanted was a better social security system and not just a cheaper one . |
| 29 | ‘ All I wanted was to get moved in somewhere nice before he comes back . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |