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Example sentences for "wanted them"

  • I told them to leave their names with the foreman, directed him to take them, and told them as soon as they had given their names to return to their homes, and that as soon as we wanted them we would send for them.

  • I went down and advised the transfer clerks to go into the office, and I told the officer that when any of our men had business to be inside, they should be let through, and I told them that if we wanted them we could advise them.

  • General Loud sent an officer to me and asked if they were to remain there or whether we wanted them.

  • In answer the little fellow put his finger to his lips to make his father and mother understand that he wanted them to keep quiet.

  • Barking and still wagging his tail, to show how glad he was that the children were coming where he wanted them, Top led the way down along the brook.

  • But Trouble seemed to have charmed Skyrocket and Turnover to do just what he wanted them to do, and they walked slowly around the paths in the yard, giving Miss Muffin a fine ride.

  • And when they had fought for three days General Pope declared his new method of carrying on the war was a great success; that he had got the rebels just where he wanted them, and would have them all in his trap for us to-morrow.

  • He always had the rebels just where he wanted them, and yet I observed that he failed to bring them to a stand before they got on the free soil of Pennsylvania.

  • I wanted them for a purpose, whereas Lee would be inclined to want something just to have it, I think.

  • That was his main reason, because he knew how tough it is in the outside world, so he wanted them at least to have that much.

  • He wanted them to run the risk of offending the Emperor and the Pope.

  • He wanted them to ally themselves with the Brethren; and he believed that if they would only do so nearly every soul in Bohemia would join the new Evangelical movement.

  • He wanted them now to be true to their own convictions.

  • He wanted them to carry out in practice the teaching of most of their preachers.

  • He said they were wood instead of iron, to be sure, but he could afford to have a new pair whenever he wanted them.

  • But we couldn't afford to let them have the saddles; we wanted them to sell as we were going in for making money.

  • Mrs. Hodge prepared our meals at any time we wanted them.

  • I even went to junk yards and got parts that I had to drill and shape and alter until they would do what I wanted them to do.

  • There were times, I'm sure, Ima wondered whether I wanted them to grow up at all.

  • I wanted them to get a lot of experience at a lot of different things, as I had done when I was a boy.

  • Naturally the builder asked for the architect's plan, and was not a little astonished when Krespel replied that none was needed, and that things would turn out all right in the end, just as he wanted them.

  • For his patients died as well as the patients of other people, and then they already saw the gates of heaven open before them ere they died, and in fact everything else that the saint wanted them to see.

  • The Baroness, handling the brittle wires with her delicate little fingers, gave me the numbers as I wanted them, and carefully held the coil whilst I unrolled it.

  • Don't you think he would be better off if he got the money, and paid for the goods in cash as he wanted them?

  • Sometimes I got them as I wanted them and at other times I might take a little goods expecting that I would perhaps get a shilling of money along with them as I was in necessity for it; but I could not get any.

  • Yes, as being a stranger I wanted them to settle with him; but they would not settle with him at all, I then asked for an advance of 20s.

  • We sometimes take goods for them; but if we wanted them to go in to our credit, they would go.

  • If he did not want them to follow him, he would shove two sticks into the ground so that they would slant across the trail in the form of an X, but if he wanted them to follow he would blaze a tree.

  • If he wanted them to follow as fast as they could with caution, he would blaze the same tree three times, but if he desired them to abandon all caution and to follow with all speed, he would cut a long blaze and tear it off.

  • If he wanted them to hurry, he would blaze the same tree twice.

  • He did not seem to find it quite legible, and adjusted his spectacles carefully, until they were just as he wanted them.

  • I told them we had, and if they would do as I wanted them to that I would give them a good supper.

  • I said I would loan them the cattle for a while as I did not need them, but would let him know when I wanted them.

  • The priest said he would study our book and if he could not understand it he was willing for his people to study, and if they could see good in our doctrine, he wanted them to have the privilege of receiving it.

  • He just stated that he wanted them on the east side of the ramp.

  • Now, did he say anything with respect to whether he wanted them on the east side or the west side of the railing?

  • Yes, I got five reserve officers and took them out there and told them what I wanted them to do.

  • He wanted them--he wanted them alone--he wanted to leave himself and be identified with them.

  • So that his servant knew practically nothing about him, except just what orders he would give, and how he wanted them obeyed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wanted them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about one; been thinking; bringing about; cold sweat; conjugal rights; deep sense; eight bells; great abundance; great improvement; long line; looking towards; not your; once taken; passed from; preserved from; remind them; sixty years; sperm whale; take observations; thin brass; true life; wanted her; wanted nothing; wanted them; wanted very