Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he wanted to destroy her in some way . |
| 2 | Mr Eduardo Angeloz , the Radical candidate to succeed Mr Alfonsin in the election on May 14th , wanted to dissociate himself from this disaster ; he found it cOnvenient to blame Mr Sourrouille . |
| 3 | In the Sixties , women had that kind of confidence and wanted to express themselves in that way . |
| 4 | Now , more than anything , she wanted to point him towards that hole and push . |
| 5 | He wanted to use me in some way . |
| 6 | Still , he wanted to keep something of that spirit , if only its dauntlessness in what looked like a hopeless future ; for similarly contemporary reasons he wanted to offer his readers a model of elementary virtue existing without the support of religion . |
| 7 | What we could choose to do if we wanted to keep them as that figure head and as a P R agency almost , we could pay them a specific salary , similar to other people who work in advertising industry |
| 8 | I suppose the reason was one of policy really — they had the youngsters hooked and they wanted to keep them in that position by not rocking the boat . |
| 9 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 10 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |