Definition

Examples

• "Icarus : Well, I wanted to get a pair of gloves for my mother, her hands get very cold during the winter season..."
• "I didn't know how many sugars you wanted so I put in 12!"
• "I just thought you wanted to help out!"
• "My friend Kibi wanted to experiment."
• "Bruno : Yes... The view... But that's not what I wanted to hear, Edward!"
• "So, I wanted to talk to you about the Christmas retail sales."
• "I have always wanted to say that."
• "She wanted a well-done steak."
• "I wanted to speak to you about managing people."
• "Jean : When I was little, I always wanted to be a pirate, to sail the seven seas and look for treasures and use my sword... and my gun..."
• "It's what great aunty Hilda would have wanted."
• "I wanted to take some pictures to show my friends."
• "Her owner wanted to thank me for saving her by giving me a voucher for a free wine tasting at a vineyard."
• "We wanted to give our customers a truly positive experience"
• "I always wanted to work for the MI5, but they said I was too rock and roll."
• "I'm rather shaken up by what happened to my mother, and the last thing I needed was to be shouted at because I wanted a refund on a ski trip."
• "-In a recent survey, nearly 70% of customers indicated that they wanted their needs and desires met prior to having to ask."
• "When she told me she was blind, I immediately wanted to know more about her, to "see" who she really was inside."
• "You remember the new factory we wanted to build in Spain?"