Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 2 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 3 | I wanted to succeed in a normal way . |
| 4 | I wanted to curl into a tiny ball and be forgotten about by everyone . |
| 5 | If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed . |
| 6 | ‘ We bought our homes on Barratt 's Candleford Estate because we wanted to retire to a quiet cul-de-sac in peaceful surroundings ’ said a resident . |
| 7 | we wanted to go for a wee meal erm afterwards and it meant er made an awfully late night with the , having the baby-sitter , got Christine next door coming in to baby-sit . |
| 8 | Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) . |
| 9 | During 1986 , when several of The Wedding Present 's contemporaries were signed to major deals , they told the press they were quite content to stay on their own label but , in reality , they wanted to sign with a major label too . |
| 10 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 11 | He wanted to stare at a free sky . |
| 12 | He was asked if he wanted to embark on a new life with a different identity . |
| 13 | Instead of talking about the job he said some words to me in Punjabi or Urdu and looked as if he wanted to get into a big conversation about Ray or Tagore or something . |
| 14 | He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director . |