Sentence examples for I intended when from inspiring English sources

This is exactly the opposite of what Ellen and I intended when we decided to use the word "wife" 13 years ago.

"It's not what I intended when we started, when it was less entertainment-oriented than it was instructional, but they've done a terrific job of broadening the audience," said Mr. Schoenfeld, who is writing a book about the history of CNN called "Me and Ted Against the World".

(Do I catch myself saying, after so many decades of devotion to Anglo-American literature, that the Happy Few resemble the Jews!) What I intended when I sat down to write was to thank you and Sophie for your assurance that I was indeed on track, doing what I thought I was doing and even directing my attention to things that had escaped me in my frenzy.

And that is exactly what I intended when I introduced AB 631 in 2012, during my last year in the Assembly.

I wondered if this was quite what I'd intended when I set out. "You sure you don't want to use the spare room?" owner Nick had said to me before going to bed – and I was starting to regret my answer.

Last night I wondered if I had taken Shackleton's message in the spirit in which it was intended when I took a polar plunge, an Antarctic rite of passage.

Elsa can seem a tad patronizing — more, I think, than Mr. Fugard intended — when she goes on about Miss Helen's artistic magic.

The protoype also didn't work as intended when I tested it.

The idea first struck me (no pun intended) when I was watching the 2007 fantasy film Stardust.

The word 'vast' is accurate; the phrase 'right-wing' is accurate; it's the word 'conspiracy' that people want to modify, because it implies to many who hear it something that I don't think Hillary intended when she used it.

But it's my spouse's current fight with breast cancer that has underlined the importance of mobile music something I'm sure Apple never intended when it released the youth-oriented iPod commercials.