Example sentences of "wanted [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 2 | At other times his need to go to her was awful , He wanted them to complete each other , to be made fully whole and created by her , instead of enduring the throes of his uncreated self . |
| 3 | I remember an Oxford don complaining that she was tired of hearing the claim that universities should aim to produce ‘ rounded ’ people ; she wanted them to have sharp corners that would interact and strike sparks . |
| 4 | You came back and said you wanted them to have thirteen weeks . |
| 5 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |
| 6 | Details of the registers would be available before the bill reached the committee stage but he wanted them to contain enough detail to be wholly credible in the eyes of the public . |
| 7 | He wanted me to put that bit on , you know there are the two bolts |
| 8 | She was the one who wanted me to take early retirement . |
| 9 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 10 | I kept my birthday a secret , except that some students wanted me to sign some books , and as I signed them I put the date and I happened to say that ‘ I am signing this on my 44th birthday ’ , and after that the news spread mysteriously and my whole class greeted me with ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in English , and today , when I saw the other class , they sang ‘ Happy Birthday to you ’ in Portuguese . |
| 11 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 12 | She threw the feeling from her and told him angrily , ‘ I think you wanted me to make these assumptions , Mr Vass . |
| 13 | The Natural History Museum wanted me to complete some ecology wallcharts of ponds and streams , sponsored by British petroleum , who have a long standing relationship with the Museum , aimed at encouraging and supporting a better understanding of current environmental issues . |
| 14 | Actually he wanted someone to give some orders to and to deal with the press for him . |
| 15 | He wanted you to sell more milk than the cows gave ! |
| 16 | It 's why I wanted you to come this afternoon . |
| 17 | She wanted him to be safe , not to be in trouble ; she wanted him to finish this book . |
| 18 | She omitted to mention that , when they last made representations to the bookseller , Mr Pascall , he had said that he stocked the books he could sell ; and if the ladies wanted him to sell better books they should take to buying them and reading them , instead of watching television all day . |
| 19 | ‘ Jozef wanted him to do some sort of favour and Mills refused . ’ |
| 20 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 21 | I wanted him to have another peak , just before the end . ’ |
| 22 | I wanted him to make that decision . |
| 23 | He could fly all day long and all night long if he wanted , but I wanted him to get 100 hours at night and I felt that despite his enthusiasm I would like to he shot of him for a period . |
| 24 | In the normal course of her work at Coronation Hospital , she would never come into such personal contact with a man as important as Dr Greene , and she would have to remember that he wanted her to recognise this fact while she was Faye Hamilton 's nurse . |
| 25 | I wanted her to have complete weekend in bed . |
| 26 | He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way . |
| 27 | SUZANNE WILKINSON , Consumer Research Editor , reviews the subjects — hot and cold — that you wanted us to investigate this year . |