Example sentences of "i wanted [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While cutting rebates and slots , two problems occurred on the curved members , firstly the glazing rebate because of the weight and length of curved members and the limited table size of my router , I decided to take the router to the wood and not the wood to the router but then realised I would be machining away the surface I wanted to guide the router on i.e the inside face which is the true radius . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to give the kids a proper Christmas . |
| 3 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 4 | I consented and , likewise , I wanted to explore the thicket of your thighs , which to my delight I found heavy with vernal dew . |
| 5 | FIGURE 4 I wanted to explore the wealth of rich and brilliant colours available in the Polychromos pastel range , so a colourful still life seemed a good choice of subject |
| 6 | And the final thing before , from me , before Mr starts for you , I wanted to welcome the fact that for the first year , there is a recognition of demographic growth change for social services , and I think that is most important . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to mark the ten years since the Middlesbrough office opened , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The second reason is that I wanted to educate the carp into finding bait in the area before I alter the character of the swim in any way . |
| 9 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 10 | I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him . |
| 11 | I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him . |
| 12 | I wanted to destroy the grey thing and I was screaming . |
| 13 | There remained one area in which I wanted to improve the effectiveness of the Accidents Investigation Branch . |
| 14 | I wanted to improve the world , to deliver into man 's hands some of those powers which had hitherto been ascribed to a snivelling and fictitious God ! |
| 15 | If I wanted to squander the money in six months or a year , I could do that too , but if I did he would haunt me . ’ |
| 16 | I was ruled out of order , I erm I there were point out then that twenty five new councillors and I understand it was n't legitimate if I wanted to restrict the vote only to those twenty five so that the rest of you would actually realise that this has gone on far too long , I only put that as a I think it is very , very important erm that we break new ground . |
| 17 | I wanted to savour the differences this area had to offer . |
| 18 | I wanted to sell the helmet for some money towards a bike , I told him . |
| 19 | Although the classes were not compulsory I only missed two , partly through exhaustion and I wanted to visit the Orangery and conservatory attached to the college . |
| 20 | I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests . |
| 21 | And perhaps I should have been , because I wanted to do the other as well . ’ |
| 22 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |
| 23 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
| 24 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 25 | If I wanted to sue the immigration people I would . |
| 26 | ‘ I wanted to use the presence of the guitar more aggressively , ’ says Lindsey , ‘ not only in solos and in the classical bits in between some of the songs , but in terms of what was actually driving the songs . |
| 27 | I wanted to use the crayons in an exploratory way but also keep control of the drawing as it was part of a set . |
| 28 | I wanted to use the phone . |
| 29 | ‘ When I took over my father 's practice , I wanted to refurbish the waiting room and surgery and install new furniture and equipment . |
| 30 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |