Example sentences of "wanted to take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no , if you go , if you went on a philosophy you wanted to take a degree in English and philosophy you do n't know any more o than the next person about |
| 2 | If one wanted to take a sample of soldiers in a particular brigade simple random sampling could mean finding a large number of individual soldiers randomly across their various units . |
| 3 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 4 | I wanted to take a laser gun and kill all those monsters . |
| 5 | Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands |
| 6 | If you had 700 quid in your pocket and you wanted to take a flyer , you would n't spend it on a band comprising ex-members of Clock DVA , would you ? |
| 7 | Yesterday evening he wanted to take a photograph of me . |
| 8 | Before the winter , they wanted to take a lot of food south , and leave it in depots . |
| 9 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 10 | And if People magazine wanted to take a picture of me in the surf with a stuffed animal , or whatever the fuck it was , then hey , the joke 's on them . ’ |
| 11 | I thought it was a damn silly place to park if someone wanted to take a leak in the bushes . |
| 12 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |