Example sentences of "[pron] wanted [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to start at the beginning . |
| 2 | I saw it erm I ran it — I ca n't remember why I was running it , oh I think I wanted to look at an actor erm , oh no , it was at a festival and I had to sit through it and I was very disappointed in it , I found it slow and rather obvious and erm a little lacking in bite . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wanted to stay at the party , have a good time , be with my friends , dance with Ryan … ’ |
| 9 | She wanted to weep at the pity of it all , then she opened them again to stare at him . |
| 10 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 11 | She wanted to get at the data , but did n't know how to go about it . |
| 12 | She wanted to laugh at the sight of his face , he looked so funny . |
| 13 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |
| 14 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |
| 15 | I 'm saying the next appointment to be made is all by , a complaint examiner , what I should n't have thought we wanted to do at the moment more than one . |
| 16 | The story is that four kings were on a journey to their coronation when , on the way , they wanted to stay at a hotel . |
| 17 | He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it . |
| 18 | He wanted to play at the funeral but Tony 's mother would n't let him . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |