Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] wanted [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall the gist of it implied that they could n't sit there sunbathing too long if they wanted to get through all seven tops . |
| 2 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 3 | So if we wanted to do some , I mean if you , if you can use that to do mental arithmetic to impress your mates , that 's . |
| 4 | So if you wanted to go from there to there you went all round that way . |
| 5 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 6 | So if you wanted to look for example , at hesitations , and try to do an analysis of where he had hesitated and why he hesitated , who hesitates more than others . |
| 7 | So if you wanted to end a pregnancy it would n't er be a problem finding out about it ? |
| 8 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 9 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 10 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 11 | I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Internal Affairs placed the circle under surveillance and delayed making arrests only because it wanted to demonstrate , by compiling the fullest possible dossier , that its investigative abilities were superior to those of the Third Department . |
| 13 | ‘ Only because he wanted to get his leg over . ’ |
| 14 | And all because you wanted to lay your hands on seventy acres of his land . ’ |
| 15 | I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open . |
| 16 | Much as he wanted to pound Ralf into the mud , he contented himself with sending the fellow a narrow-eyed glare which brought a look of respectful caution to the pedlar 's usually cheerful countenance . |
| 17 | Much as I wanted to read the good news on my walk home from the newspaper shop , I was forced to concentrate on my footing on broken and delapidated pavements , strewn with take-away food rubbish , wrappings of all kinds , and collections of weeds , heaps of dog dirt and drinks cans . |
| 18 | Disgruntled at not being attended to immediately , especially as he wanted to buy a large country mansion , he stormed out and decided to buy an estate in France instead . |
| 19 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 20 | Whether that will upset the balance at all because Lewis was a very important for them he kept stepping in when they wanted to change play . |
| 21 | Using three dimensional imaging , he told Robodoc exactly where he wanted to put the implant before starting the five-hour operation . |
| 22 | This was not the time to antagonise him , not if she wanted to get home soon and in one piece . |
| 23 | Not if he wanted to get out of the restaurant alive . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 25 | Mansell , due to race for the Newman-Haas Indy Car team in America next season , said : ‘ I ran across the track to get away because I wanted to avoid a big fight . |
| 26 | Just because he wanted to go to prison , they did not want to send him there . |
| 27 | Besides , she was thinking , what on earth had possessed him to come rushing over here just because she wanted to see him ? |
| 28 | ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’ |
| 29 | I think it maybe has to be said that we we picked these figures , not because we wanted to talk about the figures , but simply to use them as for you to hang on to . |
| 30 | Inexorably her thoughts turned to suicide , not because she wanted to die but because she desperately wanted help . |