Example sentences of "wanted make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dykins wanted to make complete bicycles , while Deal wanted to stick to manufacturing the drive mechanism . |
| 2 | I wanted to make large-scale improvements and extensions to my life , and to do so Dennis would have to be demolished . |
| 3 | Sorry , I wanted to make two points , I think there 's a big difference between foresters like yourself and the people who 're actually out there logging , and you know , I have no doubt about the work you do at the Oxford Forestry Institute , and several of your tutors and lecturers have been to talk to us , and Friends of the Earth certainly is calling for sustainable management forestry . |
| 4 | Can I + can I make I wanted to make general point earlier . |
| 5 | If it were mine and I wanted to make serious use of the bass , I 'd probably take the E and A drones off , as one could argue that they do n't do enough on top of the heavier bass strings , which might be better used for playing ‘ proper ’ bass lines . |
| 6 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 7 | The Quakers ' community development officer , Ian Leckie , said : ‘ We wanted to make sure players from Darlington did their bit . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just going to go over the fence and see what Camille 's doing , ’ said Scarlet , loath to say what she really meant — that she wanted to make sure Camille was all right — because that would imply that she might not be . |
| 9 | Det Insp Jim Fitzsimmons said : ‘ We wanted to make sure Miss Fisher got home safely . |
| 10 | You would need to be selective and have many to choose from if you wanted to make regular use of this kind of material . |
| 11 | So , all th , even if you wanted to make that qualification , it 's there , in him , I am righteous ! |
| 12 | I just wanted to make one comment . |
| 13 | He wanted to make another attempt at the kind of theatrical work with which he had experimented in Sweeney Agonistes — a verse drama but one in which the verse seems the natural expression of modern life , and which is able in a heightened or symbolic context to employ the tones and inflections of ordinary , contemporary speech . |
| 14 | In the late 1960s official reports wanted to make local government more efficient by : |
| 15 | I I wanted to make three points really . |
| 16 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 17 | And a of course is also what they used to get when you wanted to make mealy puddings you made them with the the intestines of an animal and that 's also called a . |
| 18 | In , his brother in law in you know and er he was somewhat hurt that his brother in law Will was getting a tremendous share of small blocks and he wanted to make more money out of them . |
| 19 | Richardson said they wanted to make some copies , and he and North and North 's aides copied the stack between them . |
| 20 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 21 | What he had done , he had done because he wanted to make some contribution , pay back to society the great debt he felt by being born to such privilege . |
| 22 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 23 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |