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Usage examples of wanted.

Full of this affair, the importance of which I exaggerated in proportion to my inexperience, I told Silvia that I wanted to accompany some English friends as far as Calais, and that she would oblige me by getting me a passport from the Duc de Gesvres.

The Charpillon wanted to accompany them, but it was judged best that she should remain at liberty, in order to try and set them free.

All I wanted was clearness, so difficult to obtain in poetry, while a little doubtful darkness would have been accounted sublime by my new Midas.

Enron wanted to finance gas producers through off-books entities but needed outside money to meet the accounting rules.

Bass refused, usually because Enron wanted accounting results divorced from economics.

In addition I wanted to canvass his views on what sort of human society, if any, could have had the technological know-how, such a very long while ago, to measure accurately the altitudes of the stars and to devise a plan as mathematical and ambitious as that of the Giza necropolis.

And remember, when a magistrate has been proved to have falsely accused an innocent person, the law will mete out to the accuser the punishment he wanted to give to the accused.

She wanted to protect her against herself and questioned the advisability of printing some of her replies.

That employment should be wanted for the people, while one-third of Ireland is as much waste as the woods in Canada, and the rest badly cultivated, not affording half labour, is a strange anomaly.

The Agronomy and Domestic Maintenance divisions wanted to keep all the buildings in one neat and tidy strip.

Dislike him she might, but he had the power to remind her that she was still human, still a woman of warm flesh and blood, and not as immune to the physical allure of the opposite sex as she thought she was--as she wanted to be.

Though ambivalent, Kennedy, seeking credibility in Vietnam, was for the moment in favor of increased effort and wanted affirmation rather than information, as his choice of envoys indicates.

The horses began to amble again, this time a little faster, as if they knew there had almost been trouble and wanted to leave the place of it behind.

What she wanted to see, from her vantage point seven stories high, was the ambulance dock at the Birth Center, and the route it would take to the hospital.

Smiling amputees with their wooden body parts in their laps, senior citizens standing on their heads: seeing what people wanted pictures of amazed me.