Example sentences of "want was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Want was all he could do , for his body had long ago ceased to function in that way . |
| 2 | ‘ The document the kidnappers want was written by Vicente Ortiz , ’ said Charlotte in a rush . |
| 3 | Perhaps what was wanting was only physical refinement . |
| 4 | Neither would he , because all he had ever wanted was her love . |
| 5 | No , what was really wanted was a coup by a more acceptable Baathist general who would keep Iraq in shape without strutting around alarming everyone . |
| 6 | What they had wanted was to have gone on a fishing expedition . |
| 7 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 8 | One of the rioters claimed afterwards that ‘ all they had wanted was work ’ . |
| 9 | All Felix had wanted was a decent meal and a comfortable bed , not a pitched battle with the hordes of Orcdom . |
| 10 | Dealing with Francis 's belongings had been a useful excuse , when all I had really wanted was to meet with Leon Kennedy , arrange a conclusive deal . |
| 11 | He had asked if what was wanted was a detailed account of the whole course of the investigation so far or a brief statement of what was known . |
| 12 | ‘ Good , ’ said the T'ang , seeing that what he had wanted was accomplished . |
| 13 | In other words what was wanted was something equivalent , on the international level , to the ‘ social contract ’ from which the States themselves were thought to have originated . |
| 14 | The last thing I would have wanted was for you to become emotionally involved with me . ’ |
| 15 | The last thing she had wanted was for Luke to make a pass at her . |
| 16 | Everything that she had ever wanted was coming true . |
| 17 | All he had wanted was to make her comfortable and look after her . |
| 18 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 19 | And he played his violin as well so and actually what Nigel had wanted was to get a little choral group so we |
| 20 | The last thing a cocky little man like Hatton would want was a kind of spiritual suttee . |
| 21 | What they did want was a spacious , easy-to-fly machine that was cheap to buy , long-lasting , simple to fix without the benefit of workshop facilities , and had a half-ton payload with superlative short-field performance . |
| 22 | It was conflict 's sake , what the tenants association did n't want was a solution , it wanted a lovely , publicity-generating conflict . |
| 23 | One thing he did want was money , enough of it , and pretty soon : ‘ Without money you miss most of the pleasures and lose most of the time , and do n't let's pretend otherwise . ’ |
| 24 | The one thing I did not want was an internal . |
| 25 | What I did n't want was to work for a large organisation . |
| 26 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |
| 27 | Uncle Hilbert took the loss of his wife very hard and the only company he seemed to want was Lewis 's . |
| 28 | Jesus , all I ever wanted was to love you , you to love me . ’ |
| 29 | Of parish-pump politics in his old suburban nesting place , Sevenoaks : ‘ While everyone would pretend that a solution was what was wanted when there was a problem , in fact what most people wanted was trouble … |
| 30 | ‘ All they wanted was to get home . |