Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Pakistan all that changed , all I wanted was the bed on which to lie alone . |
| 3 | I know , sir , all I wanted was to wish an old hero a happy birthday . |
| 4 | ‘ All I wanted was to get moved in somewhere nice before he comes back . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only thing I wanted was long hair . |
| 7 | All I wanted was The Marriage of Figaro , live from the Met in New York . |
| 8 | . I was ill as well as desolate , and all I wanted was to hide my wretchedness from everyone . ’ |
| 9 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 10 | The track I wanted was unmetalled , three miles behind me . |
| 11 | The last thing I wanted was to make some hasty move which might invalidate my claims to a large share of our joint estate . |
| 12 | What I wanted was an area marked ‘ The sort of place where an average girl out on her own wo n't get mugged or raped and she can get a cheap bed for the night , no questions asked . ’ |
| 13 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 14 | ‘ I built this guitar for myself and what I wanted was something very simple . |
| 15 | I said what I wanted was a pickup to make my guitar sound more like a Les Paul — really fat and not this thin , screechy shit that everyone 's got . |
| 16 | I already had two children , and the last thing I wanted was a third . |
| 17 | ‘ All I wanted was a signed photograph or something like that . ’ |
| 18 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 19 | Personally , what I wanted was to spend the rest of my life in Moscow together with my collection of icons . |
| 20 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 21 | What I wanted was to go home and take a nice long rest . |
| 22 | All I wanted was an exceptional career for Jean-Claude , for that was what he wanted for himself . |
| 23 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |
| 24 | ‘ The one I wanted was too expensive and unsuitable according to bloody Virginia . |
| 25 | And and what I wanted was a means of identifying whether we 'd achieved any anything over the two days . |
| 26 | ‘ All I wanted was to prove my husband right . |
| 27 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 28 | Erm well actually what I wanted was a repeat of my prescription , but I wondered why the last time I had one I got sixty instead of a hundred that I got before ? |
| 29 | But all I wanted was a bit of independence , a chance to find myself and discover what I really wanted from life . ’ |
| 30 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |