Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From reading sex manuals I knew I wanted to give oral sex because I love that part of a woman 's anatomy and I wanted to get close to it . |
| 2 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 3 | I wanted to publicise this outcome without making the implied criticism too hostile . |
| 4 | I wanted to let that car go , I was |
| 5 | I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] . |
| 6 | I wanted to detect any signs of discomfort . |
| 7 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 9 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 10 | It can be said I wanted to taste other joys which were available in life before the inevitable disaster . |
| 11 | " I wanted to preserve some grouse , Fairfax said doubtfully . |
| 12 | Yes and then er I wanted to change and I wanted to do private nursing |
| 13 | ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work . |
| 14 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 15 | Yeah it was analyzing it erm whether I wanted to do general questions on general dreams that A |
| 16 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 17 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 18 | You see , I wanted to do this ages ago … |
| 19 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 20 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 21 | Well , I tried to get a video cos I wa I wanted to use this section to actually watch it . |
| 22 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 23 | I wanted to base some comments about the UNISON 's er , section of the report because er , I think it 's |
| 24 | I thought I 'd keep that , if ever I wanted to go fancy dress or something it 's ever so pretty on ! |
| 25 | ‘ I wanted to see this Werner man . ’ |
| 26 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 27 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 28 | The fact that everybody around me looked and sounded completely different from myself was worrying and disconcerting ; I wanted to shed all semblances of my past civilian life and be assimilated totally into the system of the Legion . |
| 29 | But I wanted to close that window first , make sure he did n't come back . |
| 30 | I wanted to shoot that bastard tonight , Mike . |