Example sentences of "wanted [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to weep at the pity of it all , then she opened them again to stare at him . |
| 2 | He wanted to play at the funeral but Tony 's mother would n't let him . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 4 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 5 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |
| 6 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 7 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 8 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 9 | He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |
| 11 | I just wanted to look at the Earth . |
| 12 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 13 | I 'm saying the next appointment to be made is all by , a complaint examiner , what I should n't have thought we wanted to do at the moment more than one . |
| 14 | I wanted to start at the beginning . |
| 15 | He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it . |
| 16 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |
| 17 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 18 | She wanted to get at the data , but did n't know how to go about it . |
| 19 | She wanted to laugh at the sight of his face , he looked so funny . |
| 20 | I wanted to stay at the party , have a good time , be with my friends , dance with Ryan … ’ |
| 21 | Whatever the questions he really wanted to ask at the reprocessing plant , though , he would never allow his personal feelings to interfere with an assignment . |