Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] wanted [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall the gist of it implied that they could n't sit there sunbathing too long if they wanted to get through all seven tops . |
| 2 | So if we wanted to do some , I mean if you , if you can use that to do mental arithmetic to impress your mates , that 's . |
| 3 | So if you wanted to go from there to there you went all round that way . |
| 4 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 5 | So if you wanted to look for example , at hesitations , and try to do an analysis of where he had hesitated and why he hesitated , who hesitates more than others . |
| 6 | So if you wanted to end a pregnancy it would n't er be a problem finding out about it ? |
| 7 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 8 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Internal Affairs placed the circle under surveillance and delayed making arrests only because it wanted to demonstrate , by compiling the fullest possible dossier , that its investigative abilities were superior to those of the Third Department . |
| 10 | ‘ Only because he wanted to get his leg over . ’ |
| 11 | And all because you wanted to lay your hands on seventy acres of his land . ’ |
| 12 | I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open . |
| 13 | Much as he wanted to pound Ralf into the mud , he contented himself with sending the fellow a narrow-eyed glare which brought a look of respectful caution to the pedlar 's usually cheerful countenance . |
| 14 | Much as I wanted to read the good news on my walk home from the newspaper shop , I was forced to concentrate on my footing on broken and delapidated pavements , strewn with take-away food rubbish , wrappings of all kinds , and collections of weeds , heaps of dog dirt and drinks cans . |
| 15 | Disgruntled at not being attended to immediately , especially as he wanted to buy a large country mansion , he stormed out and decided to buy an estate in France instead . |
| 16 | Using three dimensional imaging , he told Robodoc exactly where he wanted to put the implant before starting the five-hour operation . |
| 17 | Mansell , due to race for the Newman-Haas Indy Car team in America next season , said : ‘ I ran across the track to get away because I wanted to avoid a big fight . |
| 18 | Just because he wanted to go to prison , they did not want to send him there . |
| 19 | Besides , she was thinking , what on earth had possessed him to come rushing over here just because she wanted to see him ? |
| 20 | ‘ Did you ring to say something important or just because you wanted to check up how late your son got home ? ’ |
| 21 | He took her arm and led her indoors whether she wanted to go or not and Jenna said nothing more . |
| 22 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 23 | Just as he wanted to assert Romanian sovereignty , Ceauşescu found his economy increasingly inter-twined with Gorbachev 's . |
| 24 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
| 25 | She was hurt , though not surprised , by his ability to switch off as soon as she wanted to talk . |
| 26 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |
| 27 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ? |
| 28 | Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past . |
| 29 | Tempted to back out while there was still time , Chesarynth knew she had to find out and quickly if she wanted to stay alive . |
| 30 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |