Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] wanted [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I wanted to hear the sound of human voices and to feel the warmth and comfort of loved ones . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to see the windows again . |
| 3 | So I wanted to remain a listener , still be excited by other people 's music and so I 've always remained a listener . |
| 4 | So I wanted to see the girl I had worked with because she must have known what happened to my stuff . |
| 5 | So I wanted to raise the profile er of the Manchester office er and er in the north western community . |
| 6 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
| 7 | Marslen-Wilson and Welsh ( 1978 ) found that fluent restorations occurred more frequently when the word was very predictable ( e.g. in Still he wanted to smoke a cikarette ) than when it was only moderately predictable ( e.g. , in It was his mizfortune that they were stationary ) . |
| 8 | You are n't seriously suggesting he might have spent fifteen years building up a simpleton 's profile , in case it would come in handy if ever he wanted to commit a crime ? ’ |
| 9 | Well everyone has , everyone is entitled to vote and he also thinks that if the time is right when unmarried women were property and he thought it would n't be long before married women to hold property too , so he was also he wanted to reform the Married Women 's Property Act . |
| 10 | The more accurately you wanted to measure the position of the particle , the greater the energy of the packet you would have to use and thus the more it would disturb the particle . |
| 11 | Rather he wanted to encompass the spirit and essence of the Lawrence book for a modern audience in a play in its own right . |
| 12 | Then I wanted to join the army and that was another two months of warfare , and then when I wanted to go in the police force my parents said , ‘ You 're trying to tell us something about your attitude to school , are n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | I always , I always , when I first wanted er when I was at school I always wanted to join the army and then I changed my mind and then I wanted to join the police force . |
| 14 | And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan . |