Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 2 | When I saw her crying , with her neck all swollen , I wanted to lash out at the doctor who 'd done this to her . |
| 3 | I wanted to go up to the Feldwebel and shake his hand . |
| 4 | I became incredibly vi er I had violent feelings erm , I wanted to go out on the street and rampage . |
| 5 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 6 | I wanted a second mate 's ticket ; I wanted to get on to the bridge and do things . |
| 7 | I was frightened by the helpless , shaking anger that had hold of me ; I wanted to get out of the room . |
| 8 | ‘ But I wanted to get out into the commercial world . |
| 9 | Er I wanted to come back on the question of regeneration and the opportunities in Leeds . |
| 10 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 11 | I wanted to run out of the room , back to South London , where I belonged , out of which I had wrongly and arrogantly stepped . |
| 12 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 13 | He was regarding her with unnerving concentration , until she felt she wanted to duck down under the water , fearing her swimsuit was see-through or something … |
| 14 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 15 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 16 | She wanted to get in off the doorstep . |
| 17 | Philippa had come early because she wanted to get in in the hope of finding an earring she had lost , before the cleaner started on the room . |
| 18 | Kate was Mary 's tutor and she encouraged Mary to clarify what she wanted to get out of the videos and work through questions to identify issues which Mary could then pursue . |
| 19 | Suddenly gripped by a feeling of panic , she wanted to run out of the small room . |
| 20 | She wanted to run out of the room , to get away from that intent gaze , but stopped herself . |
| 21 | The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party . |
| 22 | Thank you , erm before we go to the vote er Mr will you accept that er the third line down from the second resolution er made for the national licensing of all registration scheme will cover the amendment you wanted to put on to the labour resolution . |
| 23 | Two hundred years ago if you wanted to show off to the neighbours you built a tower on a hill which they could n't help but see for miles around . |
| 24 | Not exactly the sort of thought you wanted to pass on to the police at a time when two boys ' bodies had been found . |
| 25 | It sounded an ideal way to explore some of the remoter parts of this region , but our time was limited and we wanted to move on to the higher mountains . |
| 26 | ‘ Even though we wanted to go along to the studio , we kept well away from the remixes because we 'd have been ‘ Oooh do n't take that out , do n't change this ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ He sat down and we wanted to get on with the game and try for another goal , so I wanted him off . |
| 28 | A spokesman said : The traffic on the M4 is just as busy early in the summer as it is in August , and we wanted to get on with the work before the autumn to take advantage of the longer days and better weather . |
| 29 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 30 | And the lads used to come , they used to do , in them days , you know , they wanted to go out in the country to get a bob or two . |