Sentence examples for first wanted from inspiring English sources

DeMille first wanted William Boyd as Moses.

He first wanted to film "Gosford Park" there.

The first wanted power, the second profits, the third converts.

Luce at first wanted to call his new magazine Power.

"Scandinavia was where they first wanted me," she says.

Mr. Washington said he first wanted the mart empty.

He first wanted the North to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

When Mr. Volcker proposed it, the big banks at first wanted to kill it.

We first wanted to make the country more stable, said an American army spokesman.

Rembrandt and his contemporaries first wanted to concentrate on historical scenes.

Maier, however, first wanted to inspect the label's leather workshop, in Italy.