Example sentences of "he wanted [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | No surprise that every single person who met him wanted to turn that meeting into an incident , an anecdote , an event . |
| 2 | I remember very well Ben 's insistence that he wanted to retain that quartet . |
| 3 | More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs . |
| 4 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 5 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 6 | He was n't sure he wanted to hear that message . |
| 7 | He wanted to beat that stupid moony face to a pulp and then apologize — ‘ Oh sorry mate , I did n't have any choice , I know you 'll understand ’ . |