Example sentences of "they wanted [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to push in the incentive scheme throughout the shop and they were busily engaged in doing that , and were rather blinded you know , to the claims that were coming through . |
| 2 | But some companies made it clear yesterday that if possible they wanted to remain in the City . |
| 3 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 4 | Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper . |
| 5 | However , he always managed to get the team to wherever they wanted to go despite the problem . |
| 6 | And if they wanted to go against the wind , they had men , and they had oars . |
| 7 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 8 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 9 | And they had been asked if they wanted to stay in the fort , since more soldiers had now been put into it , but they thought , since they could n't fight , they would rather go and hide with their people . |
| 10 | If therapy was needed for the child , they wanted to share in the offering of help and particularly valued taking part with the workers in life-story work . |
| 11 | Disabled people would have to buy a transmitter , which costs £19.95 , if they wanted to benefit from the scheme . |
| 12 | In the final version , however , the wording had been amended to state that foreign banking markets were required to provide equivalent , but not necessarily identical , access facilities to EC banks if they wanted to trade within the EC ; it was also agreed that any foreign banks which were already trading legally within the EC would not need to reapply for authorization . |
| 13 | They wanted to get on the production line and turn out more breakfasts . |
| 14 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 15 | We wanted to see if these players would fit into the side and if they wanted to play for the side . |
| 16 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 17 | They wanted to hear about the troubles . |