Example sentences of "want was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 2 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 3 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 4 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 5 | The whisky in him fought with any consideration he might have had for her ; all he wanted was to get her into bed . |
| 6 | What I really wanted was to bash him to smithereens . |