Example sentences of "he wanted [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 2 | At other times his need to go to her was awful , He wanted them to complete each other , to be made fully whole and created by her , instead of enduring the throes of his uncreated self . |
| 3 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |
| 4 | In the normal course of her work at Coronation Hospital , she would never come into such personal contact with a man as important as Dr Greene , and she would have to remember that he wanted her to recognise this fact while she was Faye Hamilton 's nurse . |
| 5 | He wanted me to put that bit on , you know there are the two bolts |
| 6 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 7 | He wanted you to sell more milk than the cows gave ! |