Example sentences of "[adv] wanted be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his kind generally wanted was a quick flirtation , an acquiescent woman , and a no-strings parting the following morning . |
| 2 | You look at your life , and it 's like all the good things you ever wanted are loaded up onto a train that you did n't run quite fast enough to catch . |
| 3 | Jesus , all I ever wanted was to love you , you to love me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All we ever wanted was for for Laura to get back to health and be able to go out and play with Louis , ’ said Fran who is expecting her third child . |
| 5 | All I ever wanted was you . ’ |
| 6 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 7 | All they ever wanted was not to launch a crusade , but to find out what was happening . |
| 8 | All she ever wanted was a |
| 9 | Filmer , I was interested to see as I distributed glasses , was smiling pleasantly in all directions , when the last thing he probably wanted was the enormous smash-hit the train enterprise was proving . |
| 10 | What he really wanted was a two-tier price structure , with inaccessible places of ‘ secondary importance ’ facing a surcharge . |
| 11 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 12 | All he really wanted was to be next to O ; and you could see that the whole time he was listening , watching . |
| 13 | What I really wanted was the nigger , or mibbe the navy . |
| 14 | Oh yes , very tasteful , sir , a very speaking likeness I 'm sure , and such tactility in the brushwork , but what we really wanted was a while-you-wait snapshot , a quid the strip of four down the machine . |
| 15 | In fact at the risk of sounding patronizingly sexist , I would be prepared to bet that what Manuela really wanted was to get married , settle down and have lots of children . |
| 16 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |
| 17 | What she really wanted was to go on the pill , but as her doctor was a close family friend , she could n't face asking him . |
| 18 | Try eating a small amount of a low-fat , high-carbohydrate food before each meal , otherwise you may stuff yourself in a futile attempt to be satiated then eat a rich pudding anyway , since all you really wanted was the carbohydrate . |
| 19 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 20 | All I really wanted was to teach quietly in a sleepy public school , to marry a nice quiet girl and to sleep my way through life … |
| 21 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 22 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
| 23 | WHAT I REALLY WANTED WAS SOMETHING DRY , YET LIGHT AND EXPRESSIVE |
| 24 | What I really wanted was something dry , yet light and expressive . |
| 25 | What he really wanted was to get rid of Bagshot . |
| 26 | I think what he really wanted was an outline of the parish . |
| 27 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 28 | I think what I really wanted was … domination . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ By then , I knew that what I really wanted was to become a designer . ’ |
| 30 | But what Kenneth really wanted was to be where the action is , on the footplate . |