Example sentences of "wanted [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she said that yous are really out of order not going she said because she wanted to sit in that close with |
| 2 | He wanted to weep at this final defeat , but he was too tired for that . |
| 3 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 4 | LIKE Neil Kinnock , Des Wilson once said that he wanted to retire at 50 . |
| 5 | Perhaps they all wanted to invest in commercial property . |
| 6 | If you wanted to indulge in dodgy puns ( and why stop now ? ) , you could say S&M was all about coming under pressure but the authorities are taking things too far . |
| 7 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 8 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you really think I wanted to go through all that ? ’ she demanded fiercely . |
| 10 | And that you , if you wanted to go through appropriate court procedures and disagree with the official then that was up to you . |
| 11 | Some taxonomists wanted to go beyond mere classification and investigate the geographical distribution of the various species . |
| 12 | Although Watson wanted to go beyond mere taxonomy , he adopted an essentially descriptive approach to geographical studies and saw no point in advancing speculative explanations of how things came to be in their present state until much more data were available : |
| 13 | He really liked my style , but he wanted to push , he wanted to go beyond that . |
| 14 | Whether they wanted to go on that job or not ? |
| 15 | But if you wanted to go to any of those , those I marked for my days off , apart from the one to Blagden on a half day . |
| 16 | The tourist wanted to go to another club , but Creed insisted on a drink in his apartment . |
| 17 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 18 | ‘ She wanted to go to this pop festival at Roskilde in Denmark , ’ Margaret Price had explained tonelessly the evening she 'd arrived on Gina 's doorstep in obvious distress . |
| 19 | Maybe I wanted to go into some other field , get into politics . |
| 20 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 21 | Then he asked me if I wanted to go from that place . |
| 22 | Some of the members wanted to go from 2 × 2 ( commercial rib ) into the 1 × 1 needle arrangement of Half Fisherman 's rib , rather than from the 1 × 1 rib . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course I wanted him to produce me , I love his work , but I only wanted him to produce half the album and I wanted to work with other producers . |
| 24 | That er this group wanted to work with other groups which had n't come to an understanding . |
| 25 | It was my intention to spend my time there simply painting the landscape and I wanted to work with strong colour on a large scale . |
| 26 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 27 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 28 | And I wanted to know about that too . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why do you suppose Heather wanted to know about such distant events ? ’ |
| 30 | Erm so therefore I would say in er theory er my understanding would be that yes we could know whatever you wanted to know about particular fields like every two o'clock over a period of a year or whatever . |