Sentence examples for have wanted only from inspiring English sources

The cleric's brother, Muhammad al-Nimr, whose son Ali is also a political prisoner, appealed for calm, saying the late ayatollah would have wanted only peaceful protests.

Seven years earlier, thinking of Sarah Walker, he had written, "I have wanted only one thing to make me happy; but wanting that have wanted everything!" Frankly, that, too, seems an exaggeration.

So, I suspect, did Theodore Dreiser, Ogden Nash and George Orwell, all users of wait'll, though they may have wanted only to reflect a spoken sound in written form with absolute accuracy.

Her husband had wanted only two children.

She had wanted only to be near her child, all she deserved.

He'd had no intention of changing jobs, and had wanted only to visit his father.

(He had wanted only three babies and his attitude to his younger children was cold and occasionally cruel).

She remembered that he had wanted only a "crowded" show and seats in the middle of the theater.

Naina came rushing in, shouting that Bari-Mai had wanted only to add her own touch with a pinch of saffron.

For a time, her son had wanted only a distracting pain, but eventually he had wanted to tear a hole in himself and flee through it.

She told officials she had wanted only to sicken her family members so that they would need to ask for her help in paying for medical treatment.