Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 2 | If you bought six cans , you got one free , but she 'd only wanted tomato anyway and that was n't part of the offer . |
| 3 | Anne realized that she did n't really want to leave she 'd just wanted a happier home . |
| 4 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 5 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 6 | She said she 'd always wanted a grown-up daughter to be real friends with . ’ |
| 7 | I thought she 'd argue that she might as well go somewhere she 'd always wanted to visit . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd always wanted to work with Mutt Lange ; I 've actually tried to work with Mutt since 1984 , but he was always busy on a project , but he wanted to do it and it was the right time for both of us . |
| 10 | She wore an outfit she 'd always wanted to try but felt she was too plump to risk — a scarlet bustier and a black net skirt . |
| 11 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd always wanted to be famous . |
| 13 | It was what I 'd always wanted to happen but thought never would . |
| 14 | ‘ He said he 'd always wanted to be a dad ’ |
| 15 | He said he 'd always wanted to see St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 16 | When Mark and his cohorts eventually emerged from the dark recesses of the studio and delivered the Talk Talk album that they 'd always wanted to make to the band 's record label , more than one EMI executive jaw hit the lush EMI executive suite carpet . |
| 17 | ‘ Sure it was different than what EMI had been expecting , a lot different , but it was what we 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd always wanted a little girl , but one of the students at the door told me I had a beautiful little boy and he was fine . |
| 19 | He said he 'd always wanted to meet you , so we brought them all over . ’ |
| 20 | You 'd decided to go into nursing , and you 've said you 'd always wanted |
| 21 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 22 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 23 | She 'd always wanted to travel — influenced by her Sagittarian star sign , Aunt Maureen claimed — but , owing to circumstances , this was the first real chance she 'd had . |
| 24 | He 'd always wanted to be a blacksmith and he learned by doing the job . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd always wanted a farm , although I had no experience of it at all . ’ |
| 26 | That was all I 'd ever wanted , I thought . |
| 27 | Everything she 'd ever wanted laid temptingly before her — only she had looked behind the scenes and knew the display was a hollow sham . |
| 28 | Not that she 'd ever wanted to , as she told Apricot . |
| 29 | She could have escaped his hold if she 'd really wanted to . |
| 30 | If they 'd really wanted to . |