Example sentences of "he wanted [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 2 | Ruth could almost have believed that he wanted to turn around and go back home . |
| 3 | He wanted to turn round but dared not do so . |
| 4 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 5 | He wanted to turn back to reassure him in a more plausible way . |
| 6 | There is an element of bravado here — having conquered the academic and " literary " worlds , he wanted to move on — but it suggests also the extraordinary and self-conscious determination with which he worked . |
| 7 | That is admitted it , the defendants also erm that Mr had told them that he , the bank had approved the loan facilities an and that he wanted to move quickly to er exchange of contracts . |
| 8 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 9 | The fee is only twenty thousand pounds , but Mitchell had a clause in his Swindon contract which fixed the price at that if he wanted to move abroad . |
| 10 | I think he could see things that he wanted to do individually , maybe in the same way that Hendrix did . |
| 11 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 12 | Did you know he gave up what he wanted to do so that you could have material comforts ? ’ |
| 13 | She was amazed at his ambition ; he had given her to understand he wanted to give up the theatre . |
| 14 | But twelve months after they had married with such discretion , Lovat announced that he wanted to return home . |
| 15 | Blake had no interest in this bloodthirsty subject ; he wanted to return home . |
| 16 | He wanted to reach out and wrap her in his arms , to hold her tight and comfort her , but he had been wrong before . |
| 17 | I know of one pub where the licensee gave out cards to the people he wanted to let in , ’ said Coun Cussins . |
| 18 | What he wanted done , he wanted done exactly , and by yesterday . |
| 19 | He wanted more of DeFries ' time as well and the more DeFries saw things going on that he did n't like , the less time he wanted to put in to both of them . |
| 20 | Finch thought , bestirred , that the cat was an advance guard for Henry and that Henry must be on his way back to see them , and he wanted to call out to the animal , but in his excitement he could n't remember its name , so he lay back and assumed fatigue again . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got an overnight bag packed , but before we go — ’ she took a hold on herself to begin , then found that he had something he wanted to say too — and that he did n't mind cutting across what she was saying , to say it . |
| 22 | His body remained stiff and taut , even though he wanted to tremble violently . |
| 23 | But of course he never did speak with his tongue nor ever would have done if he wanted to hang on to his job . |
| 24 | He wanted to see more ‘ young ladies ’ at matches because he thought they would ‘ raise the tone of supporters generally ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Quite a bit , ’ said Finch , suddenly perked up by throwing the rhythm out and hoping that Henry would follow him because he wanted to see how it worked in canon . |
| 26 | ’ Here he paused , but he wanted to go on . |
| 27 | They were off the subject of Jenner — at least , in any direct sense — but he wanted to go on watching and listening to her talk . |
| 28 | It was still new to him and he wanted to go on doing it . |
| 29 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 30 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |