Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to stop this , I wished I 'd never started . |
| 2 | I wanted to wear this white dress — I like it , it 's cool and feels nice , it 's stretchy and comfortable — so I wore it . |
| 3 | I wanted to publicise this outcome without making the implied criticism too hostile . |
| 4 | I wanted to let that car go , I was |
| 5 | and I wanted to clarify that , and make sure that our procedures actually were back to back with contract procedure . |
| 6 | I wanted to detect any signs of discomfort . |
| 7 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 9 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 10 | " I wanted to preserve some grouse , Fairfax said doubtfully . |
| 11 | I wanted to delay this at all costs . |
| 12 | And I wanted to do much more . |
| 13 | It 's something I wanted to do all my life . |
| 14 | I even had to pay someone to cut the grass the other day — I wanted to do that . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll play until I 'm 40 and I wanted to do that with Liverpool . |
| 16 | Suddenly I realised that there were all sorts of things that I wanted to do that I had n't done . |
| 17 | I wanted to do that to show you diverts completely overwrite what is in the semi-permanent background . |
| 18 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 19 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 20 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 21 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 22 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 23 | You see , I wanted to do this ages ago … |
| 24 | Well , I tried to get a video cos I wa I wanted to use this section to actually watch it . |
| 25 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 26 | I wanted to put all that two-faced stuff behind us and settle down with Mary-Claude to live a half-way normal life . |
| 27 | And listen to this , Pip , I wanted to put this on his gravestone : |
| 28 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 29 | I I think what what I wanted to put some more meat on the basic idea so that |
| 30 | I found I wanted to include more and more of London within one frame . |