Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] wanted [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 2 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 3 | I only wanted to see this one and he said |
| 4 | O K , I just wanted us to , to do that erm , because erm , one of the things that I suspect when you 're getting down to doing your plan tomorrow , is that with the best will in the world , even though I say but this is for sales course , one of things you will want objectively to look at is either your revenue or your trading base or something , er , I just wanted to carry that through . |
| 5 | I just wanted to clarify that . |
| 6 | I just wanted to say that . |
| 7 | Yes I just wanted to say that , can I just say that within about three days of coming off the drug , all my symptoms of feeling violent , murderous , suicidal completely disappeared and they 've never come back since , and all I 've had since then is a dose of vitamin B six every day . |
| 8 | I just wanted to say that question , so , who discovered Uranus in seventeen eighty one ? |
| 9 | If I 'm g go over things that Dennis covered or that have already been covered this morning , I , I will be brief a and I just wanted to say these are some of my personal views on the quality initiatives . |
| 10 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 11 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 12 | So I just wanted to clear that , twenty five thousand |
| 13 | I just wanted to compete any time , anywhere . |
| 14 | It was just a quickie , I just wanted to read this little point that I actually think brings lots of what you 've been discussing about together , and it 's a light hearted , but it does have some relevance if I can just say it . |
| 15 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 16 | I still wanted to add some more catfish and would have liked some of the Driftwood Cats , Tatia , or Auchenipterichthys , but could not find any , so I purchased four Whiptails , Rhineloricaria sp , and placed them in . |
| 17 | ‘ I really wanted to dance all my life . |
| 18 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 19 | I even wanted to buy that one and this one too . |
| 20 | But I never wanted to see that gasoline engine washer on this hardstand again with the gas trucks parked around it . |
| 21 | She was aware of the mugs of cocoa , cooling on the table beside her , but she only wanted to prolong this wonderful moment , sitting here with David , her hand in his . |
| 22 | She desperately wanted to talk this out , to grasp these new feelings . |
| 23 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 24 | So I think her mother 's gon na be in for a bit of a shock because they all think that they 're gon na get married so quick , I think she just wanted to get that ring on her finger so she can reap the ackers and I think she 's gon na do a runner . |
| 25 | You always wanted to change those curtains and that carpet in the bedroom . |
| 26 | Vos explains Abbey National 's rationale : ‘ We simply wanted to assist those customers who had to take out larger loans and therefore had higher repayments . ’ |
| 27 | They just wanted to redress some glaring injustices in their terms of employment . |
| 28 | They now wanted to explain all this to Mrs Singh and hoped that I would be able to explain the implications of what they were going to say . |
| 29 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 30 | Bradshaw wanted nothing to do with either human , mechanical , or divine intervention : he still wanted to catch that last wave and ride it in alone . |