Example sentences of "[adv] wanted [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple were told that Alex 's natural mother was an unmarried rape victim who merely wanted a secure home for the child who would otherwise be condemned to an institution . |
| 2 | ‘ I merely wanted a word with my people who are working on your brother 's papers . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps he merely wanted the signal to be read in that way . |
| 4 | When hostilities began he merely wanted the regime to behave dynamically . |
| 5 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 6 | We very much wanted a family and both assumed that , within a few months , I 'd be pregnant . ’ |
| 7 | But then we made a sort of left turn with ‘ Tusk ’ , which dumbfounded a lot of people , not just the record company who obviously wanted the market , but a certain amount of the public who were expecting something that they 'd already labelled and were comfortable with . |
| 8 | ‘ I considered finding another writer but , as I only wanted a talented writer , I feared such a person would want to change the characters . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 10 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 11 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 12 | I only wanted a shoulder to weep on . |
| 13 | It was fifty , it 's thirty minutes to do the run , you only wanted a bus to repeat itself every forty minutes , so you got ten minutes to waste . |
| 14 | I only wanted a couple of laps up round there |
| 15 | Mummy only wanted an excuse to get at me anyway . ’ |
| 16 | After three nights , he wrote , I again only wanted the thing out of the flat . |
| 17 | He saw now that they only wanted the darned things for analysis . |
| 18 | As I only wanted the head and cam cover gaskets , these were identical . |
| 19 | If you only wanted the data of course , and not the accessing software , this would not be a problem , but this may not meet your needs . |
| 20 | But she only wanted the vest for him ; he had a start in life that she never had ; why , when she was his age she had already had one child , and was working in Dublin 's most exclusive brothel . |
| 21 | A further attendance note read : ‘ Both our proposals were rejected out of hand by your husband , although bank rep. also present , agreed that the bank only wanted the house . |
| 22 | He only wanted the best for his people , of course ; to save them from the unjust regime of Sam . |
| 23 | And we only wanted the melted chocolate , we could have had a sticky finger then could n't we ? |
| 24 | I only wanted the job . |
| 25 | I only wanted the four rock and roll ones . |
| 26 | He desperately wanted a son to continue the O'Neil line , a line of Irish kings after all ! |
| 27 | Was it because he had lost his own parents during his teens that he so desperately wanted a family ? |
| 28 | Cos I so , we so desperately wanted a baby . |
| 29 | She desperately wanted a child . |
| 30 | I just wanted a wee word with Donald . |