Example sentences of "wanted me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue . |
| 2 | Everybody wanted me to succeed , and I was scared I would fail . |
| 3 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
| 4 | If somebody 's would l if somebody wanted me to sing I really would like to know er because |
| 5 | Now he wanted me to return the favour . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm bored , and I did n't think you wanted me to return to London by myself . ’ |
| 7 | And wanted me to love . |
| 8 | She did n't tell me what I was doing , so all right , I pushed , and I gave birth to the afterbirth and thought , Oh , that 's why she wanted me to push . |
| 9 | I had a drip to get things going and the registrar wanted me to move off my nice comfy bed and climb onto the couch to have an epidural . |
| 10 | I was in a terribly difficult position because the two girls wanted me to choose between them . |
| 11 | There was a woman who wanted me to call her mother , and then called me awkward , exasperated and frightened with the dreams and the screams . |
| 12 | He wanted me to put the proposition to Service in Vancouver , and this I promised to do . |
| 13 | She wanted me to put twenty one ! |
| 14 | He wanted me to put that bit on , you know there are the two bolts |
| 15 | She wanted me to take her back . |
| 16 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 17 | She was the one who wanted me to take early retirement . |
| 18 | My bank manager wanted me to take out what he called a consolidation loan to keep up my mortgage repayments , which meant borrowing something like £6,000 . |
| 19 | ‘ You wanted me to take dictation , sir . ’ |
| 20 | I went there for the clothing , because Antoinette wanted me to take photographs . |
| 21 | So when they did say they were definitely going , he said , what he you see , he wanted me to take the Valley shop over . |
| 22 | ‘ He was horrified ; wanted me to take the baby to the police . |
| 23 | Well I mean that when we start organization and I am on , I 'm on Cortille and on the committee and they wanted me to take over the Vice Chairman and I said no way . |
| 24 | My first audition , as such , was actually for John Caird who wanted me to do a piece of Juliet . |
| 25 | No one wanted me to do the set , so I paid for it myself . |
| 26 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 27 | She reminded me what she wanted me to do , then as we neared our house I became frightened that she would fall foul of Mum . |
| 28 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
| 29 | Encouraging me to follow in this way perhaps , but moving too fast for me to believe that she wanted me to do that , she entered a revolving door of dark polished wood , mahogany and glass , and started to go round and round , looking out at me as she turned . |
| 30 | I wish I knew what she was doing , and what she wanted me to do . |