Example sentences of "wanted [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to discover a new sea route from Europe to China by sailing west instead of east . |
| 2 | A distillery that wanted to launch a new brand of whisky would face this situation . |
| 3 | He told a press conference that negotiations had entered a difficult phase and that he therefore wanted to obtain a new mandate from his people to defend the principles he had upheld in the New York talks . |
| 4 | If the government wanted to encourage a new trade in supplying meal to the populace , the last way to do it was to remove all profit from the enterprise . |
| 5 | A DARLINGTON couple wanted to buy a new door . |
| 6 | Thus , as time went on , the Royal Saloons , although handsome and commodious , were becoming dated , so the Company wanted to build a new set of saloons . |
| 7 | I. If you wanted to start a new firm for any product you might be attracted by the empty factories and the source of unemployed workers . |
| 8 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 9 | For example , David Walker and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield approached us because they wanted to take a new look at photosynthesis . |
| 10 | ‘ Or he wanted to make a new start in life . |
| 11 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |