Example sentences of "but she wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she wanted no allies . |
| 2 | But she wanted Clive to get dumped into a grand guignol Devil 's Island with whip-wielding guards , running filth in the cells and neanderthal yard bosses . |
| 3 | She loved you very much indeed , but she wanted you to have a mummy and a daddy and brothers and sisters . ’ |
| 4 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |
| 5 | But she wanted a man , so she knew she 'd have to pay a price , any price . |
| 6 | The truth was that they were lost , there was no smoke in sight whichever way she looked , nothing but the undulating feathery greenness of the forest and the sun rising above the trees in the east , but she wanted to conceal her uncertainty from Allen and even from herself . |
| 7 | Her father wanted her to go to Cambridge University and get a good degree but she wanted to become a photographer . |
| 8 | Avril had been advised to have chemotherapy , but she wanted her wedding first . |
| 9 | As yet they had no children , but she wanted four , she told Rufus . |
| 10 | Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch . |
| 11 | ‘ She did n't want to go — but she wanted me to walk her downstairs . |
| 12 | They could be at Buck House or , even worse , at Balmoral but she wanted to take the kids and her bald boyfriend to St Tropez . |
| 13 | It had the glamour that attaches to other people 's privileges ; Barbara did not resent the lack of advantages her own parents had given her , but she wanted those advantages for her own children . |
| 14 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 15 | She was not sure what it was , or what to expect should she go there , but she wanted to see it " because it had been forbidden . |
| 16 | But she wanted to go . |
| 17 | But she wanted to be polite . ) |
| 18 | I do n't think Charlotte liked school , but she wanted to be a teacher — a governess — so she worked hard . |
| 19 | She did not , but she wanted to be the kind of wife who would have known all the things it would hurt to know , like the circumstances of his pleasure . |
| 20 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 21 | She kept a straight face , but she wanted to jump with joy . |
| 22 | Bathsheba felt almost sure she knew the truth about Fanny and Troy , but she wanted to be certain . |
| 23 | But she wanted to experience again that lovely swooning feeling only he seemed able to invoke . |
| 24 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 25 | But she wanted confirmation . |
| 26 | But she wanted to do it properly . |
| 27 | Kate found it all difficult to understand , but she wanted to understand it . |
| 28 | There were a lot of things that she was beginning to remember about Julius — but she wanted to forget them again as quickly as possible ! |
| 29 | ‘ She has , but she wanted to make sure it would be all right before telling you . |
| 30 | She was not accustomed to wanting people , but she wanted them now . |