Example sentences of "wanted look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’ |
| 2 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 4 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |
| 5 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 6 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 7 | I just wanted to look at the Earth . |
| 8 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 10 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 11 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 12 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 13 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 14 | Anne wanted to look round the garden so |