Example sentences of "[vb infin] wanted [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 2 | ‘ I know Suzanne would n't have wanted me to blame her or be angry either . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I only hope I did everything Sally would have wanted me to do . |
| 4 | ‘ Jake 'd have wanted me to see her right ; but she 'll never take a penny piece off me … ’ |
| 5 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 6 | And my Grandmother certainly would n't have wanted me going She had er her feet very firmly on the ground . |
| 7 | I 'm sure your father would have wanted me to tell you . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure he would have wanted me to have anything else . |
| 9 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
| 10 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 11 | Benny was such a big girl , she could hardly have wanted them for herself . |
| 12 | Some of us have to learn to forgive our parents for not being the people we might have wanted them to be . |
| 13 | So I must have wanted them , you see . |
| 14 | ‘ So , if Jordan put them there he must have wanted them to be found — why ? |
| 15 | ‘ She could still have wanted him but got tired of waiting — decided he was n't going to leave his wife . ’ |
| 16 | We would n't have wanted him to be on anyone else 's . ’ |
| 17 | He knew that it was a stupid notion and that she , of all people , would n't have wanted him to think this way , but he could n't help it . |
| 18 | I would n't have wanted him to . |
| 19 | His hands did n't roam , did n't take liberties that she might not have wanted him to take ; only his head moved , his mouth , as he kissed her first one way , then another ; drew her lower lip , infinitely gently , between his ; sampled the top lip , her tongue ; moved languidly to approach from another direction . |
| 20 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
| 21 | He would n't have wanted her to stay if he was seriously bonded to Maria Luisa . |
| 22 | Suzanne would not have wanted her jailed . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But say we accept what you 're obviously driving at , who might have wanted her dead ? ’ |
| 24 | And yet we need to remember — Pound , I think , would have wanted us to remember — what a latecome development this is in the relations between a poet and his readers , how recent this is , and , in the perspective of history , how bizarre . |
| 25 | He 'd only have wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sure Yorick would have wanted us ’ |
| 27 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 28 | If the Germans had got this far , the British Goverment would have wanted it kept under wraps . |
| 29 | Prof Spitz , Nuffield professor of paediatric surgery , added : ‘ We would never have started the operation if we thought one was n't going to survive , and the parents would never have wanted it . ’ |
| 30 | He must have wanted it so badly . |