Example sentences of "wanted [verb] a [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 | 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 |
| 4 | So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And when he was alone sometimes and Mr Henry was a blacksmith , when he wanted to kill a bullock he used to come and help him to slaughter this bullock . |
| 7 | One woman who wanted to wear a sari had been told by her husband ‘ who do you think you are — Mrs Gandhi ? |
| 8 | I wanted to light a cigarette , but more than that I wanted not to distract him ; his reaching back . |
| 9 | I wanted to light a match , but knew there were only four matches left now , and that I must wait until I reached the Bible-box where I could first make a handful of paper spills to keep the flame going . |
| 10 | The only way to reverse the situation was by force , and the failure of the Woodvilles ' efforts in that direction had demonstrated that no one wanted to risk a slide into civil war . |
| 11 | The only way to reverse the situation was by force , and the failure of the Woodvilles ' efforts in that direction had demonstrated that no one wanted to risk a slide into civil war . |
| 12 | Lord Redesdale wanted to see a revision of the procedure in small debts courts . |
| 13 | I wanted to see a lymph gland . |
| 14 | She wanted to see a night sky unsullied by a red glare from the ground , to breathe air which did not turn one 's nose into a sooty chimney ; above all , to escape from thraldom and belong to herself . |
| 15 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 16 | ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I just wanted to see a nurse . |
| 17 | To obtain true security in Europe , NATO still wanted to see a reduction of Russia 's conventional strength , which remained overwhelming , and as in the 1970s there was some concern that Moscow and Washington could together decide the fate of Europe without European representation . |
| 18 | You said you wanted to see a weka . |
| 19 | But Conway had a problem , and he wanted to see a business friend , Jacques Remy . |
| 20 | I always believed that if someone wanted to see a show they would have come to Tottenhan Mews . |
| 21 | By the end of that second night I never wanted to see a chip again . |
| 22 | They wanted to see an eagle so they saw one . |
| 23 | I kept reading and my knowledge kept growing , but I still wanted to see an owl 's nest and experience the thrill of actually seeing one in flight , in the feather , so to speak . |
| 24 | Many of them wanted to see an administration whose make-up visibly broke the supposed lock on political power of white males . |
| 25 | What would happen when we wanted to cancel an entry ? |
| 26 | He wanted to arrange a family settlement , no easy matter with so many children and such widespread territories to consider . |
| 27 | And she wanted to borrow a couple of videos . |
| 28 | Fleury , as it happened , wanted to borrow a book and finding the door open took a few respectful steps towards where the Collector was sitting … which was on the floor , for some reason . |
| 29 | Ah went in to where John were working cos I wanted to borrow a spanner , he said I could just murder a cig and his , his mate said ah I could as well . |
| 30 | ‘ It crossed my mind that if people wanted to plant a bomb , they might do it somewhere like that to catch people milling around . ’ |