Example sentences of "they wanted [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were asked whether they wanted to abandon the tournament if the rain did not ease the managers unanimously voted to continue . |
| 2 | In Uruguay , the torturers wanted confessions ; in Namibia , they sought information ; in Cambodia , they wanted to destroy the personality of the prisoner ; in Chile , at one time , they tortured all detainees . |
| 3 | They wanted to mention the extension of nursery activities into the home , the importance of talking with the child , of playing together and sharing what has been learnt at nursery — also that staff are willing to listen to what parents have to say about happenings at home , and welcome comment and suggestions from parents . |
| 4 | I expect they wanted to watch the last few matches play the concluding holes . |
| 5 | IN June 1910 J G Fawcus and three other undergraduates of New College , Oxford decided they wanted to form a cricket club . |
| 6 | Ian Richardson and Zena Walker also enjoyed working with him , and all three approached director Claude Whatham after the first week 's rehearsals , saying they wanted to form a We Think Michael Crawford Is Marvellous Society . |
| 7 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 8 | They wanted to reach the pole in five minutes , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 10 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 11 | About mid-winter every year the members of the Assembly were asked if they wanted to hold an ostracism . |
| 12 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 13 | And they wanted to preserve the nationalized industries . |
| 14 | They wanted to recover a wider , more comprehensive vision of the church , one which could include and make room for the different forms in which the church had appeared through history , and in this way to overcome the deeply entrenched divisions between the separated confessions and denominations . |
| 15 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 16 | In a concession made without fanfare , Israeli officials said , they wanted to give the Palestinians a ‘ face-saving ’ gesture that should enable them to agree to resume negotiations over self-rule in April . |
| 17 | Certainly we just told them what the problem was , told them that there was ever such a nice quarry further down the road if they wanted to visit a slate quarry . |
| 18 | The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth . |
| 19 | And sometimes if there was just a few of the men maybe two men in the camp , they would come and help with even fencing or or erm build up a dyke or something like that Even drain they would stay for days if they wanted draining the fields , mm it was that . |
| 20 | They wanted to continue the foster placement . |
| 21 | They wanted to see a positive statement from the Government which demonstrated our commitment to the future of the railways . |
| 22 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 23 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 24 | They wanted to see the robot animal but I said no . |
| 25 | condolences and they would people were always asked if they wanted to see the remains . |
| 26 | They wanted to see an eagle so they saw one . |
| 27 | For example , David Walker and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield approached us because they wanted to take a new look at photosynthesis . |
| 28 | Before the winter , they wanted to take a lot of food south , and leave it in depots . |
| 29 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 30 | They wanted to create an atmosphere . |