Example sentences of "as he want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gnawed at him as he wanted to gnaw at food . |
| 2 | Little as he wanted to do anything about it , the boy 's babyishness , his Fauntleroy air , embarrassed and distantly annoyed him : it seemed to reflect on his own manhood . |
| 3 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |
| 4 | Wainfleet refused to tell her any more as he wanted to pump her about Hunter-Blair . |
| 5 | There was also an element of romance in the story as he wanted to create a fragrance especially for Laura . |
| 6 | Much as he wanted to pound Ralf into the mud , he contented himself with sending the fellow a narrow-eyed glare which brought a look of respectful caution to the pedlar 's usually cheerful countenance . |
| 7 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 8 | He did n't go to Spain , instead he had booked a ticket to London , that was as far as he wanted to go . |
| 9 | Just as he wanted to assert Romanian sovereignty , Ceauşescu found his economy increasingly inter-twined with Gorbachev 's . |
| 10 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 11 | A meeting of all the tourists would be summoned straightaway ( Ashenden felt a pair of unblinking blue eyes upon him ) — summoned to meet somewhere in the hotel ( the Manager nodded again — the St John 's Suite was free ) , and Morse himself would then address the group and tell them as much or as little as he wanted to tell them , believing , he admitted , that Rumour had probably lost little of her sprinting speed since Virgil 's time , and that most of the tourists already had a pretty good idea of what had happened . |
| 12 | Disgruntled at not being attended to immediately , especially as he wanted to buy a large country mansion , he stormed out and decided to buy an estate in France instead . |
| 13 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 14 | He let her see just as much as he wanted to reveal , and no more . |
| 15 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 16 | In the wake of his early film success , he rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America as he wanted to work in theatre as well as films . |
| 17 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 18 | Vine-Lott makes the point that as he wants to develop a private client retail system it is in his interest to simplify the system as much as possible . |