Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bolivia nevertheless wanted to continue as a member of the Acuerdo de Cartagena or Andean Pact ( involving Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru and Venezuela — ibid . ) . |
| 2 | And what a trick Fate had played on him by putting the very qualities he had wanted to see in that son in a daughter . |
| 3 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 4 | I 've always wanted to go beyond that curve and I have n't liked to do it on my own . ’ |
| 5 | — I 've always wanted to go to London , I told you before . |
| 6 | Any conscript who may have wanted to go to the Gulf would have had to volunteer or to join the Foreign Legion , the paratroops or the naval infantry — units which are all made up entirely of volunteers . |
| 7 | It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go . |
| 8 | She had wanted to go to bed with Freddie Nash more than anything else in her life . |
| 9 | Ever since childhood I 've wanted to go to Disneyworld , I 'm just a big kid at heart I know . |
| 10 | He had wanted to go to the convent many times , but common sense and will-power had won the day until then . |
| 11 | Bel always wanted to go to Mars . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've always wanted to go to Hawaii . |
| 13 | If you 'd wanted to go to church you could have gone to St Ermin 's which is much nearer . |
| 14 | All his life he 's wanted to go to Disneyland . |
| 15 | You see we only had the one van , you s cos the one van was wanted to go to Wicken on a Saturday again . |
| 16 | She had n't wanted to go at all . |
| 17 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 18 | Well I would n't of wanted to go with them myself . |
| 19 | She had wanted to go on the stage ; acting had always been her forte , and although she might be insignificant to look at , she had a beautiful voice and perfect diction . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 21 | She had wanted to fall in love , she had willed it , and her body had produced the lover , close to her heart , fed by her own blood , watered by own needy greedy wanting . |
| 22 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 23 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 24 | If he had n't wanted to invest in the Rose Bowl he could simply never have suggested it … |
| 25 | At one time she might have wanted to sit among the crowd , to escape from the prying eyes , but she would never have had the confidence to say so . |
| 26 | Wanted to sit in Joan 's winter garden . |
| 27 | I supposed , during those brief , heady moments after your heartbreaking apology that you had wanted to come to me tonight as much as I wanted you to come . |
| 28 | It was then , though , that she realised that , having wanted to come to London , having made the break from Hazelbury — as lovely as Hazelbury was — she did not want to return there unless it was absolutely necessary . |
| 29 | Carwyn desperately wanted to come through a few heats of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 30 | I 'm off home for the morning , but you 're wanted to come with me to see a VIP about a missing person . |