Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lennox has always truly wanted to fight for the world title and was happy taking the tough route . |
| 2 | Those were words she 'd so desperately wanted to hear . |
| 3 | You ca n't say I came here tonight wanting a row — that you ca n't say . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Not weak , but not bluffing either — not pretending he 'd never really wanted her , hated her , was better on his own . |
| 5 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 6 | And if they get together neither wants to pay because they have n't done anything , we 've only taken the stuff out and put it back in again . |
| 7 | And I know what Briant is doing , and why , and though I do n't go all the way with him , I go far enough to want to come in on his side . |
| 8 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 9 | Let us promise you , you are not allowed to die any more , we are going to s , to improve our treatment , and you 're going to survive , but with daily , increasing threat to that financial dependence that you 've so keenly want , that you want for your loved ones . |
| 10 | I had no idea what the country was like , I had purposefully not wanted any description of the landscape , city or culture . |
| 11 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |
| 12 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 13 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 14 | That 's what I 've fucking always wanted ! |
| 15 | " That leads up to what I 've really often wanted to ask you , Richard went on . |
| 16 | If he had even profoundly wanted her at all . |
| 17 | Ryan had never stood naked before her , never evinced any pride or unashamed arrogance in his appearance , but then Ryan had never really wanted her . |
| 18 | Today , I was going to Corfu — I had never really wanted to go there , but one day I saw an advertisement in the newspaper . |
| 19 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 20 | On the same subject , I suppose I have to point out that I have never really wanted to have children . |