Example sentences of "they wanted [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 2 | And they wanted to preserve the nationalized industries . |
| 3 | They wanted to continue the foster placement . |
| 4 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 5 | But the fact remained , the doctors were a different sort of person from the regular army officers ; they wanted to do the good works they did ; that they would have done it anyway , without being ordered , is my certain opinion . |
| 6 | ‘ If a breakaway Church of England was formed , they could be in communion with us , if they wanted to revive the apostolic succession . |
| 7 | They wanted to protect the public morality of the club , and wanted Docherty out . |
| 8 | In effect , they wanted to vary the experimental conditions enough to clarify the source of the heat and confirm if it was fusion . |