Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [to-vb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to tell you the morning you left , but you were in such a hurry to be gone and — ’ |
| 3 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 5 | She wanted to tell him the rest of it ; tell him what Mrs Gotobed had told her to tell Mr Evans and ask Albert what he thought she had meant , but she could n't think how to put it without making herself sound fearfully stupid . |
| 6 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 7 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 8 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 9 | He wanted to tell her the truth , every known particle of it . |