Example sentences of "i wanted [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to die in the USA . |
| 2 | I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip . |
| 3 | I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again . |
| 4 | It felt light in his arms ; a child starved of love and food and warmth : ‘ And although a part of me , deep buried , hidden away , knew , ’ he said , ‘ still I wanted to weep for the pity of it . ’ |
| 5 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 6 | I think it 's a very good cause , I wanted to invest in the future . |
| 7 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 8 | I had the Count send him my plans for the work I wanted to do on the buildings . |
| 9 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |
| 10 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 11 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 12 | If I wanted to point at the put directory . |
| 13 | ‘ There was a picture of exactly what I wanted hanging in the salon , ’ says Susan . |
| 14 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 15 | I du n no I just said I wanted to go to a pub I did n't say I was going to the pub . |
| 16 | Like every other aspiring young artist , I wanted to go to the Slade or the RCA ( Royal College of Art ) to do a post-graduate degree . |
| 17 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
| 18 | I wanted to go to the Yorkshire Moors or the Lake District : I had romantic visions of myself as a drystone waller , indomitable against the elements . |
| 19 | I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash . |
| 20 | I wanted to go to the toilet |
| 21 | We 've been out this morning , that 's right , we got back in and I was then going to go over to Saint Mary 's church club , I wanted to go to the bank at Saint Mary 's church , and erm , back door bell goes ding ding ding ding ding and I think it 's Chris cos Chris is normally the only one , go out there and who should it be ? |
| 22 | Obviously with a computer background , I wanted to go into a business where you had large volumes . |
| 23 | It was a conscious choice that I wanted to go into the company , but I did n't have a clear view as to what particular part of the business I was interested in . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew I wanted to go into the application of research ’ , he said . |
| 25 | ‘ I wanted to go into the Royal Air Force , always did . |
| 26 | I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group . |
| 27 | I wanted to go in a car wash watch it , just sit and fucking st , right that 's the |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 30 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |