Example sentences of "[vb past] i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made me want to throw up ! ’ |
| 2 | That study , more than anything else probably , made me want to see what we could do in making services more adaptable and appropriate and comprehensive . ’ |
| 3 | It made me want to go and live in San Francisco . ’ |
| 4 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 5 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 6 | She makes you see reason — she made me want to smile more and drink less . |
| 7 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 8 | But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds . |
| 9 | It made me want to run out and play the first two albums post haste , which is no bad thing . |
| 10 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 11 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 12 | I liked him , and he was different from other boys , not at all pushy , except pushy to please I suppose , but even that was sweet in a way — it made me want to say , it 's all right , do n't fret so much , I 'm having a perfectly nice time , slow down . |
| 13 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 14 | Just looking at his fishy staring eyes and open mouth made me want to keep silent . |
| 15 | ‘ Watching you wee-wee made me want to go , too , ’ she giggled . |
| 16 | It made me want to slap his face . |
| 17 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |
| 19 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 20 | It made me want to throw up . |
| 21 | ‘ When I first saw the portrait , though the clasp did n't consciously register , my subconscious must have picked it up , because something I could n't pin down nagged at me , and made me want to look again . ’ |
| 22 | But nor did I want to go out to work . |
| 23 | Then why did I want to run away from it ? |
| 24 | I remember my own mother saying , when I was undergoing tests to discover why my periods had stopped , that we need n't worry , they were an expensive nuisance , what did I want periods for anyway ? |
| 25 | Now , what else did I want to know ? |
| 26 | I had no wish to do so , but neither did I want to hurt his feelings . |
| 27 | At this stage I could n't expect him to be on the bit , but nor did I want him slopping along . |
| 28 | What more did I want ? |
| 29 | what did I want . |
| 30 | Why did I want a convertible so desperately ? |