Example sentences of "[noun sg] wanted [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost as if the Biennale 's President wanted to engineer a confrontation between the two most important trends to emerge in post-war Italy . |
| 2 | On 22 April the American Relief Administration wanted to clear a shipment to Patriarch Tikhon for him to distribute at his discretion . |
| 3 | He spoke quietly , but Granny wanted to create a scene . |
| 4 | The Norwich City Council wanted to get a licence to be able to sell intoxicants at a new pop centre they were going to open , mainly for young people , and was a member of the Labour Party , incidentally , and and a County Councillor , one of the City Wards , had the cheek to go and oppose the whole of Norwich City Council |
| 5 | If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’ |
| 6 | Up until the advent of the superstore , if a small organisation wanted to buy a PC system where did it go — Dixons ? |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | What saved the company — according to a story that Thomas Watson , Sr. , the company 's founder and long-term CEO , often told — was its exploitation of an unexpected success : the New York Public Library wanted to buy a machine . |
| 9 | Apple wanted to donate a computer to every school in the country — more than 100 000 machines . |
| 10 | The Ecclesiological Society wanted to build a model church . |
| 11 | But the Razor wanted to prove a point and demanded a return . |
| 12 | ‘ This man wanted to do a photo-feature . |
| 13 | The Emperor wanted to raise a city as a memorial to his rule ; for , as the contemporary historian Qandhari observed : ‘ A good name for Kings is achieved by means of lofty buildings … that is to say , the standard of the measure of men is assessed by the worth of their buildings . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , I only met one decorator … a young couple wanted to buy a piece and I offered them a discount as they had n't got a decorator - at which she drew herself up and said : ‘ We are not married . |
| 15 | The company wanted to build a £3m. , 30-bed unit which would create up to 50 jobs . |
| 16 | The Stock Exchange investigated Barlow Clowes because the company wanted to become a stockbroker . |
| 17 | After all , the buyer wanted to own a car not a computer program . |