Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] wanted [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes . |
| 2 | Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me . |
| 3 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 4 | But he honestly only wanted to defend his title with Williams . |
| 5 | Having shown the sudden , deep interest , how could Mungo now claim that he no longer wanted to visit the stable ? |
| 6 | But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past . |
| 7 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |