Example sentences of "wanted it [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted it that way in order to save making and breaking camp . |
| 2 | Miss Honey sensed that Matilda wanted it that way . |
| 3 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 4 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 5 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 6 | If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way . |
| 7 | and then after Christmas dinner I built this windmill and mother and I liked it and he said well its only screwed together , I nearly said well you wanted it any way , see , he wanted it and yet cos I got it , it were , any body could have it |
| 8 | ‘ Nichols and his writers wanted it both ways . |
| 9 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |