Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
2 | Yeah , no no I w I ate , that was my dinner , I ate that before I was pissed and that was my bloody dinner , I wanted to get some chips no one would walk down the chippie with me . |
3 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
4 | ‘ I 'm not down , I 'm still grazing the mountain but I wanted to get some planting done . ’ |
5 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
6 | Yeah , she wanted to get some fabric to make up a jacket . |
7 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
8 | We wanted to get some Rice Crispies okay ? |
9 | He had tried all his usual lines , Paul , Garvin , others , the ones he always used when he wanted to get official policy reversed or amended , and he had got nowhere . |