Example sentences of "did want " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at him longingly , Wondering if he really did want to have an affair with her . |
| 2 | ‘ With the Government slowly clamping down on all media coverage , unless I moved fast any chance of filming within South Africa would be gone and I did want the accuracy and flavour of the country itself to come through in the film . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It does n't seem to occur to anyone that all these people going on about UFOs and the general hilarity they cause would be quite a good disguise for the government if it did want to cover up weapons testing . ’ |
| 4 | And since I really did want to know , the only way was to test it myself . |
| 5 | No one did want the films , not in America , at least ; Nicholson and Hellman had tampered with the popular view of western history and had taken it to deeper levels , failing totally to appreciate that mass audiences enjoyed westerns purely because they provided escapism . |
| 6 | Roland did want this . |
| 7 | He really did want to ride Bones , not just groom him and feed him carrots . |
| 8 | Perhaps he did want to be in the team ? |
| 9 | Nutty cried out , stung by adults ' crass thinking , wanting one thing , saying another , saying you had to when you did n't want to , and you could n't when you did want , saying you were no good when you were , and good when it was something that did n't matter , like a pootling poem or something . |
| 10 | He 's a very silent man and yet I think he actually , at the same time , the opposite side of the silence and inwardness , … did want a great many people working on issues and analysing them around him . |
| 11 | But that was exactly what they did want , a whole album . |
| 12 | ‘ I really did want a femur ’ , he said . |
| 13 | At the same time , many incoming families , whether oilrelated workers , local government employees , or involved in Orkney 's expanding professional and service sector , did want to live in urban centres close to urban facilities with full domestic services . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity . |
| 16 | And he did want to hear it from her mouth . |
| 17 | But he did want her to know and to remember . |
| 18 | It was clear that she was n't wanted by Charlotte , and if Ernest did want her with them , then that would only make matters worse . |
| 19 | I did n't want them in my house or my life , but I did want to know what they were up to , and no-one would tell me . |
| 20 | Who did want to understand it ? |
| 21 | If most members did want a director general for the Institute , then their wishes should obviously prevail . |
| 22 | ‘ No , Mother Francis said that they would n't take me , even if I did want to be a nun , until I was over twenty-one . ’ |
| 23 | Mother Francis did want everything that might help to push Eve up some kind of ladder . |
| 24 | So they did want him to go ! |
| 25 | She still did not want a baby , but she knew how much she did want and need her husband . |
| 26 | Again , this presumption can be rebutted by evidence showing a contrary intention viz. the parties did want to make an enforceable contract , notwithstanding the domestic or social environment . |
| 27 | He did want her to settle down and find her place now that they were married . |
| 28 | And she would still be listening to Mama 's complaining and thinking up excuses for not having the wedding just yet , which had n't been fair of her , really , because she did want to marry Charlie . |
| 29 | Very intimate sounds were coming from the cubicles , but it was n't until the girl who had beckoned her earlier on came out of one of them and pointed to another where the door was open , and whispered harshly , ‘ Do n't you want to go ? ’ that she realised , Yes ; yes , she did want to go . |
| 30 | There was little point in my merely presenting a Moonie world-view — the Moonies themselves can do that — but I did want to try to make their religion and its effects comprehensible to others who wanted to understand how well-educated and intelligent people from ‘ good homes ’ could lead the kind of life they did because they had come to believe that a strange Korean was the Messiah and must be obeyed . |