Example sentences of "she wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 2 | When she first arrived at SIS as a student , Anne had an affair with some chap in her year and when it broke up , she decided she wanted to leave . |
| 3 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 4 | She had decided that she wanted to go to London , take some A-levels up there , and then , she hoped , go on to university . |
| 5 | She wanted to co-ordinate an article about trees and pollution and Jay and Francis had discovered a photographer who only did trees and did them brilliantly . |
| 6 | It was a love letter , it was what she wanted and would she have the nerve to deliver it ? |
| 7 | With her mind wide open to this new enticing prospect , a desire so unexpected and untested , she wanted no audience . |
| 8 | She began to shed the brilliant borrowed chameleon plumage , she wanted to let Lucy in . |
| 9 | She knew damn well what she wanted — Lucy stark naked and randy as hell . |
| 10 | And especially she wanted Lucy to like her friends . |
| 11 | She wanted Dionne to have the best , oh yeah , Jay , and is that you ? |
| 12 | So much she wanted to fling back the covers , light incense and candles , worship this adored body . |
| 13 | She wanted to : Jay could not bear people suffering . |
| 14 | But she wanted no allies . |
| 15 | She wanted instead to wear fewer and fewer clothes , to have next to nothing left between her and the sun : to take off her shorts and let the sun 's rays reach the tops of her thighs . |
| 16 | She wanted to hear interviews with other survivors and to know what the emergency services had to say — the fire fighters who rushed to the scene , the doctors who performed the operations . |
| 17 | She wanted to see reconstructions of the accident , diagrams of how it might have come about . |
| 18 | She wanted to bike along the road for a swim but after she finished dressing she simply sat on the edge of the bath and looked out of the window . |
| 19 | She wanted him to have contact with other Irish kids and families , as a sort of bulwark against the swamp of English culture . |
| 20 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 21 | She was n't sure she wanted to return , but seemed not to have much choice anymore , and so she stayed . |
| 22 | She wanted to say screw the colonialist blood but did n't . |
| 23 | She wanted to bite and kill everything . ’ |
| 24 | The Department of Employment said that the licence she wanted did not exist . |
| 25 | Although the mother accepted that the child 's immediate future lay with her foster parents and there was no immediate prospect that she could have her back , she wanted to keep the door open and therefore she refused her consent to the adoption . |
| 26 | She wanted her baby , did not want to run the risk of a miscarriage and would not have considered an abortion . |
| 27 | She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings . |
| 28 | She wanted to get on with her work . ’ |
| 29 | There could be no hint of criticism on the part of the court if she felt she wanted nothing more to do with it . |
| 30 | She wanted help with being prepared for confirmation and turned to her nephew for guidance . |