If you wanted to create a majority that might be true.
If you wanted to destroy the house, and cut down all the trees, and turn the place into a wilderness, I suppose you would only have to speak.
If you wanted to make him stay where he is, the way to do it would be to tell him that his health was failing him.
I thought you'd be sure to help me, as you wanted me so much to do it.
You wanted to hear little or nothing then of Caradoc Hurtle.
You wanted to keep it from going away if you got into trouble.
What's the matter, Ted, you look as if you wanted to turn into a submarine?
That would be the cream of the jest--the very cream--to end the evening in combat with a large blue policeman after having all you wanted in life break under you suddenly like new ice.
Didn't she make me tote yer things all down-stairs, so you could have the pretty room you wanted?
She wanted me to tell you that they--they were going to stay together and to play the game, just as you wanted them to.
Yes; when he came to tell me you wanted to see me to-day, you know.
After all," he said, "It isn't as if you wanted anything of anybody.
Manella averred--"If you wanted one, which I daresay you don't.
Sometimes, if you wanted to get a reform, your only way would be to pension off the good fellows whom everybody is fond of, and put them out of the question.
You wanted to frighten him away from expense, and we want to frighten him into it.
How rude you look, pushing and frowning, as if you wanted to conquer with your elbows!
You remember he had written me a nice letter, but instead I went away yachting; you wanted to go to Greece.
You wanted to, but I would not let you--and because I regretted I had not a harpsichord, only a humble piano!
Evelyn, don't lay the blame on me; you wanted to go too.
If you wanted to move the pail with the least effort, where would you put your hand?
If you wanted to make the pail move farther and faster than your hand, would you put your hand nearer to the fulcrum than the pail is, or farther from the fulcrum than the pail?
If you wanted to know whether or not certain substances contained cobalt combined with oxygen, you could really find out by taking a grain on a borax bead and seeing if it turned blue.
If you wanted to move the pail a long way without moving your hand as far, would you put your hand nearer to the fulcrum or farther from it than the pail is?
If you wanted to help, give fifteen or twenty even, but keep three roubles for yourself at least, but he flung away all the twenty-five at once!
Well, come to my room; you wanted to come and see me, didn't you?
You knew my character, you wanted to drive me to fury and then to knock me down with priests and deputies.
Now, Mr Rodd, sir, what was it you wanted to know?
The Spaniard laughed, and with a grim smile said-- "You wanted a guide for coming up here, young man.
You wanted peace," said Madame, "when it depended but on you to make war; you now want war when you can make neither war nor peace.
I am perfectly ignorant in the matter; you know, and I call you to witness, that I have done nothing therein but what you wanted, and that I have done all you wanted.
You wanted to be the servant of the Church, that you might thereby become mistress of the world.
You wanted to have Henry Howard in your power; and this crafty and hypocritical earl knew how to conceal his guilt so securely under the mask of virtue and loftiness of soul!
You wanted to destroy Surrey, but the queen was to sink into the abyss with him.
You couldn't do a right thing if you wanted to; you can only do wrong things.
You wanted to know," he said, well after the beginning of their talk, "whether there were many of the Little Flock left.
But old Hingston, good old soul, he ought to have let go, if you wanted him to.
You wanted him so that your brother might be rid of him, your mother wanted him because I didn't want him, the governess wanted him because he reads his Bible, and old Margret because she had known his grandmother from childhood.
Ah, my rough lion skin that, you wanted to take away from me!
Mother, if you wanted to do something very good and wise, and if you could not do it without money, what should you do?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you wanted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
