Example sentences of "always wanted [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's spent 30 years working as a teacher , but always wanted to earn a living as a painter . |
| 2 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 3 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 4 | Porterfield was a good player who always wanted to become a manager . |
| 5 | " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents . |
| 6 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 7 | I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women . |
| 8 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |