Example sentences of "what i wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only one I ever felt got near to saying what I wanted to say . |
| 2 | I knew what I wanted , but I could n't find it . |
| 3 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 4 | What he wanted , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) and what I wanted . |
| 5 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 6 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 7 | Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at . |
| 8 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 9 | I no longer know what I wanted , I said . |
| 10 | I was getting what I wanted . |
| 11 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 12 | The top is not what I wanted . |
| 13 | . ‘ ‘ The added coverage is exactly what I wanted ’ . |
| 14 | The doors were padlocked anyway and I got what I wanted for my purpose from looking at the outside . ’ |
| 15 | Maybe people were seeing me as something other than what I wanted to be naturally . |
| 16 | What I wanted to do was to ensure that the social security budget was being spent to best effect . |
| 17 | I think the reason I wanted long hair was because all my dolls were Sindys and Pippas , and they all had long blonde hair , so that was what I wanted . |
| 18 | I know that he kicked and punched me ; I know he told me this was what I wanted , that no one would ever love me , and this was all I was fit for ; and I know he raped me . |
| 19 | I heard in my inner ear what I wanted to hear and the rest … well , it went down ! |
| 20 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 21 | I am going to have to say , ‘ OK , this is not what I wanted , but it appears that is what you [ the voters ] have decided ’ . |
| 22 | It was clear to me from this letter that we were engaged again , if that was what I wanted , and I did ; also , that the natural happiness and buoyancy of Leslie 's nature had reasserted itself , now that it had been released from what he had felt to be the cramping frustration of home service . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway ! ’ exclaimed Laura , coming to her feet , ‘ I suppose I 've said what I wanted to . |
| 24 | This is n't what I wanted but it feels right . |
| 25 | who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came . |
| 26 | I knew what I wanted to do from then . ’ |
| 27 | And what I wanted to know was , why had O and Boy never been seen to look at each other ? |
| 28 | ‘ But what I wanted to ask Denis was , what did he mean by saying we were n't children any more ? ’ |
| 29 | What I wanted to do was so to change things that the Cabinet could do that . |
| 30 | I knew this was muddled and that it was not quite what I wanted to say , but I felt better for saying it . |