Example sentences of "[noun prp] wanted [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnett wanted to defer the building of a new British Library next to St Pancras Station . |
| 2 | Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along , Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good . |
| 3 | In June 1990 Antall told Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranitsky that Hungary wanted to join the EC at the same time as Austria . |
| 4 | Pat wanted to change the subject . |
| 5 | I felt ill , but Friday wanted to eat the pieces of men 's bodies which were still on the ground . |
| 6 | Murgatroyd wanted to change the basis of the launch at the last moment : he had the idea of claiming that he had found instructions for making the snacks in a recipe book compiled by his great-grandmother . |
| 7 | Giles wanted to see the judicial and revenue branches of government drawn more closely together on the Indian model . |
| 8 | Kirstein wanted to see the ballet in preparation before confirming the commission , so John began working on it with dancers of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet , including Miller as the heroine . |
| 9 | Nisodemus wanted to rebuild the Store . |
| 10 | Cleary wanted to include the imprimatur ‘ Official ’ in his title but somehow the Rugby Football Union , despite weighing in with pieces by the President and the Secretary , never got around to giving its official blessing . |
| 11 | Marshall deduced that Wickham wanted to surprise the man , to see how he reacted when confronted with the fact the police knew a death threat had been typed on his office machine . |
| 12 | Lenin wanted to use the conference to launch an international struggle to turn the war into the revolution . |
| 13 | ‘ According to the ancient Greeks , when Zeus wanted to find the centre of the earth , he released one eagle to fly eastwards and another westwards . |
| 14 | Sharpe wanted to slow the French advance . |
| 15 | An American official said Washington wanted to enforce the international oil and arms embargo against the country . |
| 16 | Camille wanted to see the dogs — relive her childhood . ’ |
| 17 | Golla wanted to apply the new method of investigating the brain by recording its electrical activity ( electroencephalogram or EEG ) to clinical problems and was able to provide various types of patients for Walter to study . |
| 18 | Dostoevsky wanted to stifle the thought that he was riding on the back of Nechacv 's perverse glamour . |
| 19 | Bryan wanted to join the duchess , but it is understood that her father Major Ronald Ferguson — who is in Klosters — bluntly told her it would be a ‘ bad mistake ’ . |
| 20 | For the special Christmas episode , ‘ The Feast of Steven ’ , an episode never screened abroad , Camfield wanted to use the main actors and sets from the popular Z Cars series ( including Brian Blessed , Colin Welland and James Ellis ) in cameo appearances . |
| 21 | Bass wanted to create the FA Carling Premier League , but last week FA chief executive Graham Kelly declared : ‘ The integrity and the name of the FA Premier League should be sacrosanct . ’ |
| 22 | Rose wanted to leave the washing-up for morning but the girls insisted on getting it over with . |
| 23 | Rita wanted to cover the filing of the stuff |
| 24 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 25 | Harry wanted to take the little blonde piece and jive with her . |
| 26 | ‘ Firstly , the ARFU wanted to assist the new South African Rugby Football Union 's development fund . |
| 27 | I asked him to desist not from his prayers but from his actions because I felt sure that God wanted to prepare the Anglican priest for his death . |
| 28 | Surprise , surprise , the year ended with the news that BR wanted to close the Settle & Carlisle . |
| 29 | The SARFU wanted to play the test at Johannesburg 's Ellis Park , the biggest ground in the country , where gate receipts would be huge , while the ARFU wanted to play at the low altitude venues of either Durban 's King 's Park or Cape Town 's Newlands Stadium . |
| 30 | Malcolm wanted to create the most direct statement of what clothes were about . |