Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 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 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 9 | How I slept too much , and less and less well of course , but the truth was I did not want to wake up . |
| 10 | I did not want any stranger thinking I could be keen on anything my sister was stupid enough to find interesting . |
| 11 | Liz did not want to speak to me , I noticed . |
| 12 | Company she did not want . |
| 13 | Cameron did not want to be asked this . |
| 14 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 15 | The client did not want the teddy to have glass eyes . |
| 16 | But Dostoevsky did not want to surrender the tract of suffering bounded by the sense of being and doing nothing but one 's thoughts . |
| 17 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 18 | He wanted job-related , professional qualifications as well as a degree , though did not want to enter articles to become a lawyer or accountant . |
| 19 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 20 | Hampshire said it did not want to duck its share of the South-east 's demand for housing , but would find land enough in the south of the county in preference to development nearer London . |
| 21 | Like Spain , Italy did not want to raise interest rates and put further upward pressure on its currency within the EMS . |
| 22 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 23 | She wanted her baby , did not want to run the risk of a miscarriage and would not have considered an abortion . |
| 24 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 25 | Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit . |
| 26 | The weekly paper for the young and independent , published today , asked 500 12 to 15-year-olds how happy they were at home and 79 per cent said they did not want to leave before the age of 18 . |
| 27 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 28 | He maintains he did not want to shoot her , but that he was angry with her and was also agitated by a huge bar bill , and as well as by being put in a particularly smokey corner of the night club . |
| 29 | Another survey , by The Indy , the weekly paper for young people , found that the British teenager was happy at home and one in three did not want to leave the family nest . |
| 30 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |