Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Not to this hard man who wanted to grind her into the dirt .
2 It was the first time in my life I wanted to carry myself as a woman , not like a weird , kinda little ragamuffin girl . ’
3 Her mother was n't at home , and her father wanted to see her to the car , which was parked in the street .
4 ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’
5 Prior to becoming a teacher , Roddick decided she wanted to see something of the world .
6 Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car .
7 She wanted to fling herself to the ground , to lie there with her body pressed against the purple glory .
8 The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end .
9 The duke himself , meanwhile , wanted to establish himself in the north as quickly and as fully as possible , and control of the Neville affinity offered one means to that end .
10 He told Maurin he 'd pretended she wanted to meet you at the museum .
11 Of course , where Dorothy was concerned , that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end .
12 And MacLane wanted to wallpaper me for the job .
13 For instance , I wanted to feed him on the baby food in jars and I keep telling her I do , but I end up feeding him the powdered food like my mum wants .
14 ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’
15 Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath .
16 when you wanted to do something with the keys or operate er horizontal , there was a machine and you had to go to the do it yourself .
17 In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras .
18 Unless you wanted to do something in the kitchen as well of course .
19 The man who wanted to do it with a cigarette in his mouth .
20 ‘ Even at school there were players more skilful than me , but I was the one who really wanted to do it in every game .
21 You wanted to abandon it by the side of the road , but I made you push it on , with myself taking short spells of pushing .
22 ALTHOUGH SHE HATE POSING FOR PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS SHE NEVER MINDED WHEN BERNARD WANTED TO USE HER AS A MODEL .
23 He just wanted to use me as a sort of social-aid-cum-aphrodisiac .
24 I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene .
25 Tolerated once again under President Anwar Sadat , who wanted to use it as a counterweight to the left , the Brotherhood had been prevented from operating openly by a clause in the Constitution which prohibited the recognition of political parties based on religion .
26 Howard Hawks , who owned my contract , always said that he wanted to put me in a film with either Bogie , or Cary Grant , and I always thought , ‘ Oh , Cary Grant , naturally , how great that would be . ’
27 Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off .
28 ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album .
29 ‘ We wanted to put you in the picture , ’ Otley said .
30 Besides , I wanted to put you in the picture .
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