Example sentences of "wanted to go [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Do you really think I wanted to go through all that ? ’ she demanded fiercely . |
| 2 | And that you , if you wanted to go through appropriate court procedures and disagree with the official then that was up to you . |
| 3 | Some taxonomists wanted to go beyond mere classification and investigate the geographical distribution of the various species . |
| 4 | Although Watson wanted to go beyond mere taxonomy , he adopted an essentially descriptive approach to geographical studies and saw no point in advancing speculative explanations of how things came to be in their present state until much more data were available : |
| 5 | He really liked my style , but he wanted to push , he wanted to go beyond that . |
| 6 | Whether they wanted to go on that job or not ? |
| 7 | But if you wanted to go to any of those , those I marked for my days off , apart from the one to Blagden on a half day . |
| 8 | The tourist wanted to go to another club , but Creed insisted on a drink in his apartment . |
| 9 | The only dances she had ever been to had been school dances , and she wanted to go to this one . |
| 10 | ‘ She wanted to go to this pop festival at Roskilde in Denmark , ’ Margaret Price had explained tonelessly the evening she 'd arrived on Gina 's doorstep in obvious distress . |
| 11 | Maybe I wanted to go into some other field , get into politics . |
| 12 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 13 | Then he asked me if I wanted to go from that place . |
| 14 | Some of the members wanted to go from 2 × 2 ( commercial rib ) into the 1 × 1 needle arrangement of Half Fisherman 's rib , rather than from the 1 × 1 rib . |