Example sentences of "they wanted [verb] the " 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 | They wanted to reach the pole in five minutes , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And they wanted to preserve the nationalized industries . |
| 10 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The early Vikings believed that the rainbow was a bridge for the gods to walk over when they wanted to visit the earth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They wanted to continue the foster placement . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | They wanted to see the robot animal but I said no . |
| 17 | condolences and they would people were always asked if they wanted to see the remains . |
| 18 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 19 | Essentially , they wanted to spend the rest of their lives in the area in which they were born , and anyway , where were there opportunities for ex-miners ? |
| 20 | This last wild exaggeration has also been popular with educators at times when they wanted to stress the importance of their task and the need to get it right . |
| 21 | They wanted to save the animals . |
| 22 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 23 | When they wanted to stop the investment programme , it was managing director Malcolm Cotton who fought for the idea . |
| 24 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 25 | But the fact remained , the doctors were a different sort of person from the regular army officers ; they wanted to do the good works they did ; that they would have done it anyway , without being ordered , is my certain opinion . |
| 26 | In the years immediately following the war , manufacturers could sell all the machines they wanted using the old point-to-point wiring and had no need to trouble themselves with anything better . |
| 27 | Newell and Simon wanted to know how our brains and minds function ; they wanted to discover the quintessence of intelligence . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't very well illustrated , ’ says Sendak , ‘ but they wanted to keep the smallness and the charm . |
| 29 | ‘ The advertising agency told us they wanted to make the ground look as much like Roker Park as possible , ’ he says . |
| 30 | 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 . |