Example sentences of "wanted [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older men , who still wanted to attend live games , learned to avoid either of the ‘ ends ’ , and with falling attendances there was no difficulty in finding a relatively safe place elsewhere in the ground . |
| 2 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 3 | It can be said I wanted to taste other joys which were available in life before the inevitable disaster . |
| 4 | On Aug. 7 Enoch Kavindele had withdrawn his candidature , the first such challenge to Kaunda ; he had said that he wanted to breathe new life into the party , but had little visible support among delegates at the congress . |
| 5 | They wanted to kill innocent people like us . |
| 6 | ‘ You wanted to kill poor Thomas in order to further your own beastly ends . |
| 7 | Friends of the Earth 's annual " Green Con " award was won by the newly-privatized Eastern Electricity , which earned the damning accolade on the grounds of a letter from its chairman urging its customers to use more electricity if they wanted to combat global warming . |
| 8 | Today she wanted to thank medical staff … police and hordes of well-wishers who 've sent cards and letters … including a surprising number of prison inmates |
| 9 | Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts . |
| 10 | The British , like Norway 's Trygve Lie ( who conceived of an ‘ Atlantic ’ defence system ) , at first thought mainly in terms of a military alliance , but others , like Belgium 's Paul-Henri Spaak , wanted to see economic co-operation . |
| 11 | Lady Wilcox , the NCC chairman , told Valerie Grove of the Sunday Times in September 1990 that she wanted to see responsible lending and responsible borrowing . |
| 12 | She wanted to go straight back . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd keep that , if ever I wanted to go fancy dress or something it 's ever so pretty on ! |
| 14 | They were Steen the showman ; the prints were Steen the man who wanted to gatecrash high society , the man who wanted a knighthood . |
| 15 | She wanted to arrange sole rights for the overland trade in frankincense and other goods between her country and the rich markets to the north . |
| 16 | I wanted to try other women , but I could n't bring myself to do it . |
| 17 | Mr Milburn said Labour wanted to provide adequate child care facilities for all because it would benefit children , and would allow parents , especially women , to return to work . |
| 18 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 19 | None of the big trainers wanted to know Magic Night as a youngster , so she passed into the care of little-known Philippe Demarcastel and made his name . |
| 20 | American house advertisements lapsed into French when they wanted to indicate high status : ‘ Une Maison Ranch très originale ’ or ‘ Une maison contemporaine ’ . |
| 21 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 22 | He said there were widespread fears that the Home Secretary wanted to replace locally-elected police authorities with Government-appointed boards . |
| 23 | He said there were widespread fears that the Home Secretary wanted to replace locally-elected police authorities with government-appointed boards . |
| 24 | GEORGE Bernard Shaw wanted to simplify English spelling and had such a bee ( a spelling-bee ? ) in his bonnet that he bequeathed his royalties for its promotion . |
| 25 | After the successful penetration of Bouerat , he wanted to explore Benghazi harbour , once again taking some SBS men with him . |
| 26 | Verses 2–3 : it was normal to employ professional embalmers — but perhaps Joseph wanted to avoid religious entanglements . |
| 27 | They wanted to escape bad weather in Britain and to help Mrs Knott recover from an operation . |
| 28 | At his little desk by the window he would be tolerated as long as nobody important came in , but when Riddle 's visitor wanted to discuss real business it would be , ‘ If you do n't mind , Matthew … ’ and Matthew would have to go . |
| 29 | And er you you the I even if they wanted to buy Welsh slates , |
| 30 | As Jim Smith 's side recovered from their epic tie with Liverpool , Beresford said he was misunderstood when he revealed he wanted to play Premier League football next season . |