Example sentences of "[vb past] wanted him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd woken that morning , lying beside Vanessa with a hard-on she 'd wanted him to pleasure her with , and had stupidly refused her , knowing he had a liaison with Martine that afternoon . |
| 2 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was n't without blame , but had n't she made the same kind of mistake when she had endowed Marcus with the qualities she 'd wanted him to possess ? |
| 4 | But why on earth had she been so prickly if she 'd wanted him to stay ? |
| 5 | The days were long gone when she 'd wanted him to understand , believe her . |
| 6 | And she knew … she just knew he 'd wanted her , as badly as she 'd wanted him . |
| 7 | She 'd wanted him and she 'd let him know . |
| 8 | He had driven her half out of her mind with little more than a few heated kisses , and the humiliation of knowing just how much she 'd wanted him burned into her . |
| 9 | Donnellan said that if at any time she 'd wanted him to stop , he would have done . |
| 10 | Mountbatten had wanted him to be a leader of men . |
| 11 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 12 | Gina had wanted him sent away to school . |
| 13 | The sentence disappointed many people whose prejudice had wanted him hanged , including those pamphleteers who had established his guilt long before any trial . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I had signed Saunders from Derby and he said he would have joined Forest if any other club but Liverpool had wanted him . |
| 15 | His mother had wanted him to be put into care and felt that she was unable to relate to him . |
| 16 | How she had wanted him to kiss her , she did n't know what it was like to be kissed and Craig Grenfell was such a handsome man . |
| 17 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 18 | Beyond all reason , she had wanted him to believe her . |
| 19 | More than anything in the world she had wanted him to stay . |
| 20 | For some perverse reason she had wanted him to be annoyed . |
| 21 | When she 'd thrown the challenge at him a part of her had wanted him to refuse to go , had wanted him to say he 'd rather stay with her . |
| 22 | When she 'd thrown the challenge at him a part of her had wanted him to refuse to go , had wanted him to say he 'd rather stay with her . |
| 23 | Public prosecutor Pierluigi Dell'Osso had appealed against an earlier ruling absolving De Benedetti , and had wanted him to stand trial for extortion . |
| 24 | They want to help him , and I have to remind them that he might be frightening ( that was the way they had wanted him to be ) so we 'll need to approach him very carefully . |
| 25 | She had wanted him to slam something back at her , a denial , an agreement , another challenge , anything but that infuriating silence . |
| 26 | Well , she had wanted him to be hopping mad the next time she saw him , and she was pretty sure she 'd succeeded . |
| 27 | She had wanted him . |
| 28 | For one fleeting moment she had seen the temptation to kiss her in his eyes , and , gallingly , part of her had wanted him to . |
| 29 | Honest with herself , she knew she had wanted him to come . |
| 30 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |