Example sentences of "wanted [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I wanted to remain a listener , still be excited by other people 's music and so I 've always remained a listener . |
| 2 | I could feel it pulling me in , but I wanted to remain a bachelor . |
| 3 | I just wanted to alert the staff in case any of you have seen or heard anything suspicious . ’ |
| 4 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 5 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 6 | ‘ The Bangles wanted to emphasise the rock'n'roll side of the band and in doing so thought regalia and kind of hippyish , Hendrix-style clothing was gon na put that image across , but it ended up looking very glamorous , it ended up looking glammier and glammier even though the intention was for it not to be glamour … |
| 7 | FIGURE 1 In this five by four foot painting I wanted to emphasise the strength of the granite structure , so I decided to counter-balance the sense of its solidity with a diffused and scumbled sky , Figures , walls and railings were initially indicated and loose brush strokes of warm pink applied to the sky area . |
| 8 | The spread was partly due to the initiative of former pupils of deaf schools who wanted to continue the friendships which school life had forged and to help one another in adulthood , and partly to the evangelistic zeal and charitable urge of hearing people associated with deaf schools , who realised that deaf and dumb children needed support also in adult life . |
| 9 | However , he had come to make it clear that he wanted to continue the arrangement he 'd had with Kattina . |
| 10 | for example , a short recall of the original theme ( perhaps using only one sentence ) would be sufficient if we wanted to continue the theme by introducing yet another period of change . |
| 11 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 12 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 13 | James was by European standards a clear-sighted ruler who wanted to gain a little more of the authority over his subjects to which all kings were entitled , but by the standards of Englishmen he was a ruthless tyrant with the additional vices that he wanted to promote the cause of Roman Catholicism and was willing to infringe the rights of property . |
| 14 | She wanted to attend the eunoto and the women 's circumcision and understand everything about betrothals . |
| 15 | Now there are occasions where members legitimately need to attend committees to speak to something in which they have an interest but the difficulty is , that in the past when we had permanent chairman , a member who wanted to attend the meeting had to ask the permission of that permanent chairman and there are occasions when that permanent chairman thought , well , there is no need for that member to attend and he has said no . |
| 16 | And that 's when you get the problems , I had a chap ring me , he wanted to report a crime , and he says well you 're only just down the road , at , I said no I 'm not I 'm at Sherwood Lodge , he said I did n't ring Sherwood Lodge I rang police station |
| 17 | So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ? |
| 18 | Hull city council , which Ministers accept is a good , efficiently run council , wanted to enforce the law , but , in practice , it can not be enforced . |
| 19 | This is why Jesus came , as the God-man , to redeem the evil of the man-God , who wanted to usurp the place of God in creation . |
| 20 | He did n't want to know anything he wanted to drive the crane so he give me a start . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Rotuma Council of Chiefs said that it wanted to monitor the islanders ' movements " for social and cultural purposes " . |
| 23 | Those naturalists who wanted to preserve a role for the supernatural in the creation of life were forced to try out a number of alternatives in an attempt to provide an explanatory framework that would serve as an alternative to evolutionism . |
| 24 | Roosevelt was an outdoorsman who wanted to preserve the wilderness — but his motivation was to maintain the stock of bear , deer and other animals sought by hunters . |
| 25 | Citrine , with his instinct for seeking stability and continuity , wanted to preserve the EDA intact on nationalisation , but the area chairmen felt the Boards should take over its work . |
| 26 | It seems he wanted to preserve the evidence of Elfed 's attitude to him . |
| 27 | Rousseau , who was an incurable romantic , wanted to preserve the community of innocent and primitive social life , but wanted the community to take precedence over the rights of its individual members . |
| 28 | What Harry Truman wanted was for Douglas MacArthur to behave himself , he wanted Douglas MacArthur to stop giving impromptu press conferences , he wanted him to stop inventing strategy as he went without reference to the president , he simply wanted to restore the chain of command . |
| 29 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 30 | Nothing could have been more perfect for someone who had to work , but desperately wanted to enjoy the sunshine and activities of summer . |