Example sentences of "[noun prp] have want [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 2 | Sitwell had wanted to buy a Modigliani painting to take back with him to show to his brother Osbert , who was to sponsor the Exhibition jointly with him . |
| 3 | Peter had wanted to make a response in kind to his parents . |
| 4 | If Sinead had wanted to do a Benetton shocker , the photograph used would have been of the boy 's body . |
| 5 | Mattie had wanted to put a shawl over her shoulders , but she had shrugged it off and demanded to be left alone . |
| 6 | From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition . |