Sentence examples for before I wanted from inspiring English sources

Coming from the Drag March the night before, I wanted an afternoon filled with glitter and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" sing-alongs.

I'll admit that I've been wrong before — I wanted to eat Spacey.

Before I wanted to be a priest, I wanted to be a paleontologist.

But having never made the stew before, I wanted to start with the real deal.

When I was a kid, before I wanted to be Einstein and before I wanted to play second base for the Yankees, I wanted to be a cowboy.

"I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

"If it's never been done before, I want to try it," is Ms. Lee's event philosophy.

If I go into a room that I have never gone into before, I want to inspect it.

As before, I want you to imagine that I lost my keys, and we must search for them in all the places we just went to.

This explanation is substantiated by the comments of several raters on effects of verbalization [e.g. "If I had not been forced to think aloud, I would have given a 3 (satisfactory), but if I now reconsider what I said before, I want to give a 2 (borderline)"].

If I don't keep in shape, these will force me to retire before I want to.