Sentence examples for had wanted was from inspiring English sources

What I had wanted was for my marriage not to have blown apart.

Several staff members said what they had wanted was publication of their work.

All Rose had wanted was to pass on quietly to, as she viewed it, rejoin her husband, Akiba, who had died ten years before.

What Bella had wanted was to be the Little Match Girl: hungry, cold, forever begging, and forever dying.

What the British had wanted was a spy in place inside the Iraqi diplomatic service, and that opportunity was lost.

He hadn't expected to catch Moore with those left hooks anyway, I imagine; all he had wanted was to move him around.

"What Mother would have wanted" was a combination of the two: a hypothetical want of the dead.

It's what he would have wanted," was knightpestle's choice.

"The last thing my husband would have wanted was for everyone to lie down and die".

After being thrust into the limelight by John Terry, probably the last thing Robbie Savage would have wanted was to be featuring live on TV.

All either of us have wanted was to live the American dream.