Example sentences of "i wanted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | In fact I found Shakespeare very difficult to get on with and was n't at all sure that I wanted to . |
| 3 | I wanted to but I could n't . |
| 4 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 5 | If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted to be different , ’ he admitted . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to be a primary teacher , and you have to teach so many different things at that level that it seemed better to study a broader range of subjects , ’ she says . |
| 8 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 9 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 10 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 11 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 12 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 13 | I wanted to be an actor when I was very little , but then I changed my mind . |
| 14 | Sometimes I 'd come down to see people and do things , but only when I wanted to . |
| 15 | I wanted to disorient him . |
| 16 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 17 | Maybe people were seeing me as something other than what I wanted to be naturally . |
| 18 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 19 | I wanted to be in a harder place , hearing the great murmur of shock and argument you hear only when people realize that life has changed forever . |
| 20 | At the end of this meeting I was where I wanted to be . |
| 21 | ‘ Only when I wanted to be . ’ |
| 22 | It was irksome being trapped in my body as I wanted to be on the roof , in the rose bower , by the lake , in the woods , on the hills and in the valley simultaneously . |
| 23 | I was real good at sports and I wanted to be a professional football player . |
| 24 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 25 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 26 | I wanted to be non-controversial , popular with people . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Hold on , are you saying that , if I wanted to , I could make people do things , obey me and stuff ? ’ |
| 28 | They are both disreputable practitioners of empty trades and I wanted to — ’ |
| 29 | At six and a half I loved making up my face , and at ten , the baby book recorded , I wanted to be a dress designer . |
| 30 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |