Example sentences of "he wanted [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 2 | He had something he wanted to say to the Christian world and the question was how best to say it . |
| 3 | If he wanted to act like an uncivilized person-which is what he must be and you could see it clearer all the time-then let him alone . |
| 4 | He was too tired to go to the window again , and did not know now what he wanted to see on the other side of the glass . |
| 5 | He felt he wanted to go to the gipsy encampment and tell Boz that Anna could not marry Nahum . |
| 6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 7 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 8 | His parents fully understood his difficulties and raised no objections when he said that he wanted to live in the poorest part of South-East London for a year , to study conditions and work in a lay capacity amongst the people . |
| 9 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 10 | Marius was against cremation ; he wanted to lie in an English grave with a marble headstone . |
| 11 | Look , he wanted to shout at the tumbling rooks , here is the only certain reality . |
| 12 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 13 | He wanted to stare at a free sky . |
| 14 | He was asked if he wanted to embark on a new life with a different identity . |
| 15 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 16 | He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director . |
| 17 | His stride was impatient , as if he wanted to pass through the tangled undergrowth and brambles as quickly as possible . |