Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt light in his arms ; a child starved of love and food and warmth : ‘ And although a part of me , deep buried , hidden away , knew , ’ he said , ‘ still I wanted to weep for the pity of it . ’ |
| 2 | She wanted to weep for the ecstasy she would never know now . |
| 3 | I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again . |
| 4 | we wanted to go for a wee meal erm afterwards and it meant er made an awfully late night with the , having the baby-sitter , got Christine next door coming in to baby-sit . |
| 5 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |
| 6 | But the EPA wanted to wait for the results of the post-flood analysis in the hope that the floods would dilute the dioxin . |
| 7 | A simple example will make the differences plain : suppose a testator wanted to arrange for the payment of a sum of money to a certain person . |
| 8 | ‘ She came home from Guides one day and said she wanted to try for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award , ’ recalls Rosemarie . |
| 9 | I also wanted to work for a firm with work under the legal aid scheme . ’ |
| 10 | In an earlier reply he suggested that in Northern Ireland , those who wanted to volunteer for the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve could volunteer for some other service . |
| 11 | No further appeal was possible under Austrian law , but defence lawyers said that they wanted to apply for a retrial because of new expert evidence which cast doubt on their client 's conviction . |
| 12 | We wanted to see if these players would fit into the side and if they wanted to play for the side . |
| 13 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |
| 14 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 15 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 16 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 17 | While Simon and Andy were keen to offer a quality service in a limited number of areas essentially as the profession was 20 years ago — Amanda and Roger wanted to opt for a slightly broader service . |
| 18 | He overbore Neville Chamberlain and the others who still wanted to ride for a fall on a bold safeguarding policy . |
| 19 | Cooke wanted to build for the future . |
| 20 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 21 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 22 | He wanted to forget for a while — to escape from the prison of his real life , and to lose himself in dreams . |
| 23 | He wanted to stop for a smoke , |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , it was fun , ’ she answered huskily , ‘ but I never wanted to act for a living — ’ |
| 25 | A patronising merchant banker playing for The Nortons , whom the Captain dearly wanted to dismiss for a duck , scored 112 , and his team declared at 204 for 6 . |
| 26 | ‘ You have to look ahead to the time when you leave football , and I wanted to prepare for a life in sport and leisure management , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |