Sentence examples for had actually wanted from inspiring English sources

The next day, relief poured over me because, after 26 years, I had actually wanted a change.

She lost the part to Elizabeth Taylor but claimed the producers had actually wanted her because she was better at horse-riding.

God, he argued, had actually wanted Eve to eat the fruit, and the serpent was not a serpent at all but, rather, "a Communist or a welfare-statist".

A week later, a Goldman employee testified before a Senate subcommittee that Goldman had actually wanted to unload that piece of the Abacus deal but was unable to find a buyer willing to pay an attractive price.

Locals say Briatore had actually wanted to move to the Indian Ocean Lodge, a former resort nearby on the water, where, like Gatsby's mansion, it shows up well, a whitewashed wedding cake on a high coral shelf.

In late March, quoting two anonymous sources, Newsweek reported that Comey had actually wanted to talk about the Russian political meddling, through a personal, bylined newspaper column, but the White House had blocked him from doing so.

This is the first time I've actually wanted to get involved in a relationship... the first time since I've come out".

The impression is that in another life this is what Downey the real person would have actually wanted to be and do.

(Of course, Maggie couldn't have actually wanted to screw Rust, out of revenge or because the man had been flexing his arms at her for years; that would mean she had desires beyond being a plot device).

"When I listen to Ready to Die, I feel a nostalgia for the way we were, but I also remember that I would never have actually wanted to run into Biggie in 1994," she writes.

The line of attack on the so-called New Start agreement with Russia is instructive, suggesting that some Senate Republicans may go after the pact on the grounds that it does not allow a missile defense against Russia, something neither Republican nor Democratic presidents have actually wanted.