Example sentences of "you wanted [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So it was it was the lace that you wanted emphasizing rather than a
2 ‘ I 've kept the florist here in case you wanted to talk to him .
3 ‘ And I thought you wanted to talk about mortgages , ’ said William .
4 But you know if you wanted to talk about sanctification , as a for instance , that 's growing in grace and holiness , becoming more the person that God wants us to be .
5 I said that it was all right , because I 'm not a Catholic either but if you wanted to talk , I was willing to listen .
6 I think I know what you wanted to talk to me about — the rather large cheque for Irwin Osnafeld .
7 You wanted to talk about something , I believe , ’ she said , her voice as smooth as cream , and something leapt to life in his eyes at the confidence she was showing .
8 ‘ I thought you wanted to talk . ’
9 and erm I , it tells me what you wanted to talk about .
10 She said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I got in the way just now , when you wanted to talk about the vineyard . ’
11 That was what you wanted to talk about . ’
12 You wanted to talk about Lothian ? ’
13 ‘ I thought you wanted to talk ? ’
14 ‘ And I thought you wanted to talk all through the flight ! ’
15 What else where where else can you say it if you wanted to talk about the exclusivity of .
16 Anyway you wanted to talk about dogs .
17 If you wanted to invent a perfectly stereotyped queer , this is the story you 'd tell — down to the name ‘ Mary ’ and the fact that his sexual partners were young , and prostitutes .
18 and you wanted to divide them among four people
19 If you had four things and you wanted to divide them between four people
20 If you wanted to represent a series of board positions you would need to use a 3 dimensional array .
21 I would also actually suggest that again if you wanted to ease it a bit I 'd pick up a point also made just now er in that P P G refers to building and the E two refers to development .
22 I could arrange it , if you wanted to return .
23 ‘ It was the first thing you wanted to do , ’ she says .
24 Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it .
25 ‘ None of you wanted to do all the other things , not that I noticed !
26 The main thing you wanted to do on the train was pull the blinds down , wash your stockings and put your hair in curlers .
27 Did Ampeg give you a free hand when you joined them , in terms of what you wanted to do , or spend ?
28 ‘ You said you wanted to do it your way .
29 If , for example , all you wanted to do was to reduce the sleeve length , you could ( provided an alternative length was given ) use a shorter length given for a smaller size .
30 Fresco enables developers to create applications that use tens of thousands of run-time objects : ‘ you 'd have big problems if you wanted to do that with conventional X-Windows widgets or XT intrinsics , ’ he says .
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