Example sentences of "[noun] wanted [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitchcock wanted her for The Birds but she turned him down . |
| 2 | Roy Clements wanted it for his collection which is thought to be the largest in Britain . |
| 3 | In this sample , however , not one parent wanted it for their own child , and in general they were more prescriptive about what was morally correct for other parents here than on any other issue . |
| 4 | He may have remembered St Mary 's Tyne Dock , where he freely sanctioned certain things that were illegal because the parish church council wanted them for purposes of devotion . |
| 5 | ‘ Angela said the council wanted it for housing ? ’ |
| 6 | That 's what these slate quarry owners wanted us for us to fall back . |
| 7 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 8 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 9 | Reid was convinced that the British Empire had given New Zealand the Cook Islands mandate because the Americans wanted it for their sphere of influence . |
| 10 | When the news was broken to Martha that Lydia wanted her for a bridesmaid , she was excited . |
| 11 | Maybe an hour at most , ’ lied Lawrence , not knowing what the hell Cardiff wanted him for anyway . |
| 12 | Tite wanted him for the special unit he was setting up . ’ |
| 13 | Further , those who requested such facilities wanted them for others — those who had been ‘ mollycoddled ’ by their parents and by their teachers in special schools — rather than for themselves . |
| 14 | During the day , Erika wondered what her mother wanted her for , but after two hours in the gym she had given up wondering , and , indeed , had forgotten about it . |