Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [to-vb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's something I wanted to do all my life . |
| 2 | I wanted to put all that two-faced stuff behind us and settle down with Mary-Claude to live a half-way normal life . |
| 3 | The fact that everybody around me looked and sounded completely different from myself was worrying and disconcerting ; I wanted to shed all semblances of my past civilian life and be assimilated totally into the system of the Legion . |
| 4 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 5 | I wanted to forget all about him — pretend it had n't happened . ’ |
| 6 | I wanted to forget all the things about my country . |
| 7 | If I wanted to copy all of the department twenty two files to the , the A disk , the floppy disk . |
| 8 | That 's it , and er so I wanted to try all these things and of course |
| 9 | During this time she wanted to exploit all the constitutional possibilities and consolidate a broad-based support around the civil rights demands . |
| 10 | Risley Employee communications clerk Pat Hunt , who helped organise BNFL 's response to the appeal , said she wanted to thank all employees who generously donated spectacles and also the site collectors for their help . |
| 11 | Oh she wanted to do all sorts did she ? |
| 12 | She wanted to rehearse all her wisdom out loud to someone so that she could find out if she still believed it herself . |
| 13 | She wanted to get all of the washing out , then cross her fingers for a dry day with a bit of sunshine and a drying wind . |
| 14 | She was beginning to speak more quickly now , as if she wanted to rush all the words out . |
| 15 | She sighed , but decided that unless she wanted to stand all the way to Oxford , she had no other choice . |
| 16 | If she wanted to climb all that way , that was her business . |
| 17 | She wanted to know all about the Tyrrell Society , of which Willy , Alan and I were members . ’ |
| 18 | She wanted to forget all about this man beside her , just as he seemed to have forgotten about her . |
| 19 | ‘ And I thought you wanted to talk all through the flight ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ None of you wanted to do all the other things , not that I noticed ! |
| 21 | ‘ And he also said you wanted to do all that before you were thirty-five . |
| 22 | ‘ You wanted to see all of James Worsdale 's work ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I thought you wanted to see all papers relating to that takeover straight away . |
| 24 | And now , suppose you tell me why you wanted to know all this ? ’ |
| 25 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 26 | It would have to begin D twenty two , and anything that follows erm suppose you wanted to delete all the nineteen eighty seven files . |
| 27 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 28 | In days gone by there had been little differences between the members of the party on the war policy , but the war was now over and they wanted to unite all their forces … |
| 29 | They came straight out with it : they wanted to supply all the spirits for the club — at very reasonable prices . |
| 30 | He wanted to kill all living things . |