Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those were words she 'd so desperately wanted to hear . |
| 2 | You ca n't say I came here tonight wanting a row — that you ca n't say . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Not weak , but not bluffing either — not pretending he 'd never really wanted her , hated her , was better on his own . |
| 4 | They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them . |
| 5 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 6 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 7 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 8 | Richard did not even want to preside . |
| 9 | Furniture was the focus of interest but , according to John Hill , from Jeremy of the King 's Road , London , the Americans did not just want good examples of standard items , they wanted something different , with a gimmick or original style . |
| 10 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 11 | This drew the comment from Bertrand Russell that both East and West did not really want disarmament . |
| 12 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 13 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 14 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 15 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 16 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 17 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 19 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 20 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 21 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 22 | They did not therefore want to suggest of Christ that he was another God , which would create a polytheistic situation . |
| 23 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 24 | As I did not now want her to guess my real reason for keeping quiet on this other matter , I used the truth , if not all the truth . |
| 25 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 26 | And whichever way it went , in any event , the public did not greatly want to know . |
| 27 | A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone . |
| 28 | Sources say Unix System Labs did n't exactly want to sue the university , but basically has no choice and regards this as a test case . |
| 29 | I did n't exactly want one of the Corporals to come up , put his arm around me and say ‘ Tell me all your problems ’ , but I felt bloody intimidated by the impersonal approach . |
| 30 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |