Example sentences of "wanted [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to publicise this outcome without making the implied criticism too hostile . |
| 2 | " I wanted to preserve some grouse , Fairfax said doubtfully . |
| 3 | This gave a measure of protection since the Pharaohs wanted to preserve some animals to hunt . |
| 4 | That 's who Jesus is God in flesh , and he came to forgive sin and he wanted to forgive this woman her sin . |
| 5 | His mouth , sober just a minute ago , had drifted into a lazy smile , and she wanted to taste those freckles on his nose with her tongue . |
| 6 | Braque , on the other hand , wanted to paint these distances or spaces , to make them as real and concrete for the spectator as the objects themselves . |
| 7 | Risley Employee communications clerk Pat Hunt , who helped organise BNFL 's response to the appeal , said she wanted to thank all employees who generously donated spectacles and also the site collectors for their help . |
| 8 | But I never wanted to see that gasoline engine washer on this hardstand again with the gas trucks parked around it . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought you wanted to see all papers relating to that takeover straight away . |
| 10 | All the world wanted to see this race . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to see this Werner man . ’ |
| 12 | Most of all , though , she wanted to see this hacienda , this secret place lost in the mountains , and there was a mystery to solve . |
| 13 | The Kha-Khan wanted to see some prisoners who were taken near Pesth . |
| 14 | China wanted to see some reference to the possibility of direct trade — currently banned by Taiwanese law . |
| 15 | Molly , at least , wanted to see some pictures . |
| 16 | If Craig Charleston said that he never wanted to see another Spitfire project , I would not be surprised , I 'll wager that he does though ! |
| 17 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 18 | PAIN , along with parents , lawyers and many others involved in the Orkney case , wanted to see those guidelines given the full backing of the law . |
| 19 | Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose . |
| 20 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 21 | This morning , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said that he wanted to see more policemen on the beat , yet when he was a member of the last Labour Cabinet he cut the number of policemen and left the police force under strength . |
| 22 | You wanted to go that day . |
| 23 | ‘ He wanted to borrow some money . |
| 24 | But then the man wanted to try some town driving … he pulled over on Brantwood Rise , got the gun from his briefcase , and escaped with the vehicle , worth twenty seven thousand pounds … |
| 25 | He understood more than had actually been said , and he wanted to find some way to ease her embarrassment . |
| 26 | Yet all my friends wanted to find another way of being . |
| 27 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 28 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 29 | He had no problems in stocking these from the Far East , India or the Cape with help from Dutch merchant-ship captains , but he wanted to obtain those North American novelties which he knew to be flourishing at Chelsea , so in July 1736 Linnaeus came to England with a letter of introduction from Boerhaave to Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 30 | What he said was very significant — that the ANC wanted to encourage any film-maker , black or white , who tried to put on the screen images of black people that were recognisably human , and who also tried to give employment and encouragement to black technicians . |