Example sentences of "[adv] wanted [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I 'm sorry , I just wanted to see a nurse . |
| 3 | Erm , there 's also , I just wanted to say a bit about the ambulance er . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 5 | You just wanted to have a change ? |
| 6 | Most of the East Germans surging across said they just wanted to have a look at West Berlin , have a beer in a bar , or see a friend . |
| 7 | She just wanted to have a look . |
| 8 | I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it . |
| 9 | Bodie said , ‘ I just wanted to get a look at you before they spirit you away . |
| 10 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
| 11 | If they ever wanted to have a moan about anything I did wrong , like using the bathroom too often , they used to tell Lesley to tell me . |
| 12 | He 's spent 30 years working as a teacher , but always wanted to earn a living as a painter . |
| 13 | Actually , I always wanted to write a play about how life gets so tedious that we start reminiscing about what happened two minutes ago . |
| 14 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 15 | Porterfield was a good player who always wanted to become a manager . |
| 16 | " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents . |
| 17 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 18 | I always wanted to find a woman who liked to do what I liked to do — but I could never find one who wanted to drink and chase women . |
| 19 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 20 | To obtain true security in Europe , NATO still wanted to see a reduction of Russia 's conventional strength , which remained overwhelming , and as in the 1970s there was some concern that Moscow and Washington could together decide the fate of Europe without European representation . |
| 21 | Erm we also wanted to implement a plan er and this is an ongoing er situation of admitting er young blood to the partnership over a period of of erm five years or so , again that 's a rolling programme |
| 22 | Nicky also wanted to call a witness who had knowledge of Waddell 's part in the crime , but on both counts Lord Clyde turned him down . |
| 23 | She also wanted to have a Sunday dinner , whenever possible , in the style of Willis , who followed the bargemen 's custom of serving first sultana pudding with gravy , and then the roast . |
| 24 | I also wanted to get a rhythm through the work which portrayed some kind of dance . |
| 25 | ‘ I really wanted to create a reference book for my twin daughters , Alicia and Alexandra , of all the recipes I loved as a child , and still like cooking , ’ explains Sheila . |
| 26 | He really wanted to do a play on maybe Broadway at the time — something different . ’ |
| 27 | If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet . |
| 28 | I doubt if my mother really wanted to have a child in the heat of India and was surely delighted that she was merely the victim of indigestion . |
| 29 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |
| 30 | Everyone noticed him and either wanted to have a word or an acknowledgement of their recognition . |