Sentence examples for have actually wanted from inspiring English sources

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

"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.

(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).

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.

Obviously nobody knows exactly what happened during those hours up to his death at approximately 6am the following morning, but the subsequent suicide verdict seems ludicrous – if only because of the fact that were Drake to have actually wanted to kill himself, there were bottles full of aspirins and barbiturates on hand for such a task.

Only years later, after she has married and settled into a humdrum life, does she realize that Roy Spivey might have actually wanted her to call him, that giving her the number wasn't just the playful gesture of a movie star, but an attempt at genuine connection.

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".

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

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.