Example sentences of "she wanted be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All she wanted was to get this whole thing over with , so she could go home to Kentish Town and sleep in her own bed . |
| 3 | All she wanted was to be alone . |
| 4 | All she wanted was to sit down and maybe read a book . |
| 5 | All she wanted was to be by his side . |
| 6 | What she wanted was to get into the laboratory where Piphros had been life-commenced . |
| 7 | But all she wanted was lots more glamour . |
| 8 | THE VICTIM — ALL she wanted was a Saturday job . |
| 9 | ‘ She knew if she had attended one of the public services she would have been the centre of attention and the last thing she wanted was to be photographed as the woman alone . |
| 10 | What she wanted was a baby . |
| 11 | An aide said later : ‘ The last thing she wanted was to have her picture taken when she was eating . ’ |
| 12 | All she wanted was to be their friend , but they responded by ridiculing her . |
| 13 | All she wanted was to turn Althorp into a flourishing commercial business to ensure its survival . |
| 14 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
| 15 | All she wanted was a doting beau on hand , and Rossmayne 's fortune . |
| 16 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 17 | When neighbours tried to visit , she had Jennifer send them away , and when they said Mr Drew might be coming down to call on her , she became very agitated because the last thing she wanted was a turncoat parson at her deathbed , and she was so afraid that he might confiscate her silver Madonna that she had Jennifer take it from her neck and put round her own . |
| 18 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 19 | What she wanted was to send the whole family to America . |
| 20 | The manager was okay — all she wanted was to get the place calmed down — and she showed us out the back way . ’ |
| 21 | She was furious that he refused to talk about religion except in terms of duty to her parents ; what she wanted was a discussion of Peter Abelard and an immediate place in a convent . |
| 22 | All she wanted was to turn the clock back and shrug off the ghastly realisation that her marriage was not what she 'd thought it was . |
| 23 | The last thing she wanted was even the smallest degree of intimacy in this relationship . |
| 24 | Abruptly , all she wanted was to escape , escape that pitying , patronising gleam in his eyes , escape the mounting tension which was threatening to annihilate the last , precarious shreds of her self-control . |
| 25 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 26 | If only people would realize that all she wanted was freedom : freedom to think and act for herself , freedom to let life happen to her , instead of having to shape it to her parent 's expectations . |
| 27 | To her he had seemed a hero : all she wanted was to kneel at his feet , kiss them and bandage them . |
| 28 | " She wanted to … oh yes , but unfortunately , the man she wanted was not … available . " |
| 29 | What she wanted was permission to cease . |
| 30 | She could n't think why — the last thing she wanted was to prolong her time in his company . |