Example sentences of "[pron] wanted [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to just pop away over the first few for him to get his confidence . |
| 2 | Erm I wanted to actually arrange a coach if there 's enough people sort of please arrange a coach , could do , but I reckon it 's probably easier to go up |
| 3 | Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem . |
| 4 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 5 | So Mike must , said to him well , the thing is well we wanted to really get in before Easter |
| 6 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 7 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |