Example sentences of "did [adv] want " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 2 | ‘ I did so want Isabel to come , too . |
| 3 | She did so want to wear her new shoes . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know how else to shake you out of your melancholy — and I did so want Hilary back . ’ |
| 5 | I did so want to tell you how I felt , but I just … just could n't seem to , somehow . |
| 6 | She did so want him to kiss her . |
| 7 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 8 | ‘ I did just want to raise the question of that boy … ‘ |
| 9 | I 'm sure he wanted to join in the fun but maybe he did just want to make sure they all got down safely . |
| 10 | He did always want to get away when he was with Gina . |
| 11 | I did always want to get married . |
| 12 | As he had just said , he did genuinely want to help . |
| 13 | But he did also want to put his all into this new play with Maggie Smith that seemed to offer so much . |
| 14 | ‘ In a little way it did , because we did really want to keep it small . |
| 15 | No the one that I did really want |
| 16 | I did indeed want ‘ to counteract the aesthetic of technologised murder which was filling our TV screens ’ . |
| 17 | He did however want to say something different : as with a linguistic ‘ calque ’ , familiar structure has to join with strange or novel material . |
| 18 | Moreover , most users who did actually want to come off were reacting , not to heroin itself but the associated dangerous and stressful lifestyle . |
| 19 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |