Example sentences of "wanted it [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I wanted it all badly enough , did n't I ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The Alderman who funded it wanted it all called after Sherwood folk . |
| 3 | The driver added : ‘ The company naturally wanted it all kept quiet . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm innocent , believe me , Craig has fooled you but he ca n't fool me , he wanted it all , the property and land , the business and every penny of the money . |
| 5 | Suddenly , almost overwhelmingly , she wanted it all to be over . |
| 6 | I want … wanted it all or , in the end , I found I wanted nothing , although I 'd originally thought I could be satisfied with something . ’ |
| 7 | His breath ragged , his eyes near wild , he stared at her , and it came to him then that he wanted it all : the house , the money , and Theda , too . |
| 8 | ‘ But I wanted it all to be as it used to be so I said I 'd rather do it myself . ’ |
| 9 | But like , he even said it , he said to me when I was drunk and I , and it pissed me off a little bit actually cos like , he goes to me you know like I I was saying about it and he goes erm well she was the one who wanted it all casual and everything , and I said oh yeah . |
| 10 | They wanted it that way in order to save making and breaking camp . |
| 11 | Miss Honey sensed that Matilda wanted it that way . |
| 12 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 13 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 14 | ‘ No , we wanted it that way , ’ stresses Tim . |
| 15 | If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way . |
| 16 | and then after Christmas dinner I built this windmill and mother and I liked it and he said well its only screwed together , I nearly said well you wanted it any way , see , he wanted it and yet cos I got it , it were , any body could have it |
| 17 | ‘ Nichols and his writers wanted it both ways . |
| 18 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |