Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was horrible , but we were teenage fools and we wanted to sit at home and do big grown-up things . |
| 2 | She said she 'd realised how tired your parents were becoming and she knew that if she wanted to remain at home on a long-term basis she would have to have some form of respite care . |
| 3 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 4 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 5 | It gnawed at him as he wanted to gnaw at food . |
| 6 | Walker knew what he wanted to do at Waterloo and he had the backing of the Southern board . |
| 7 | Brewing Nescafé on her own gas-ring and buying solitary quarter pounds of cheese for herself ; and painting one wall geranium red and another cornflower blue and the others white , as she wanted to do at home but her mother would not let her . |
| 8 | ‘ King Robert , my lords , never wanted to fight at Bannockburn . |
| 9 | He explained that Anne needed support too and that if he wanted to stay at home most of the time , then he must consider her welfare and go to the centre sometimes as well . |
| 10 | One day my son said he wanted to stay at home with me . |
| 11 | The price of low category security has been more than some inmates wanted to pay at Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 12 | Halfway through dressing , wearing his shirt and underpants , he looked for Moda in the workroom , where he assumed she would have thrown it on their pile of magazines ; he wanted to gaze at Bella Kropotkin again , but he could n't find the magazine . |