Example sentences of "wanted [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next I listened to a message from Andy Kennedy talking about the unreached peoples of the 10–40 window , which includes Saudi Arabia , and how the Lord wanted them to hear the good news . |
| 2 | Added to this , at the time of retrieval subjects may have simply assumed that since this was an experiment about risk , the experimenter really wanted them to recall the risky situations . |
| 3 | The main features were well known to most travellers , but Green wanted them to discover the lesser known tarns , valleys and fells of his beloved Lake District . |
| 4 | ‘ He wanted me to spend every spare minute with him . ’ |
| 5 | She perhaps wanted me to inherit the dark old house and to marry Estella . |
| 6 | Uncle wanted me to have a twenty-first party but 1 August is an inconvenient date because it 's usually in the middle of haytiming , so we did n't bother . |
| 7 | Or ‘ You wanted me to have the Tuscan villa , did you not ? ’ |
| 8 | He wanted me to get a good job and live a quiet , comfortable life . |
| 9 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 10 | I desperately wanted him to see the right ‘ way to go ’ . |
| 11 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 12 | He had recently shown interest when Paramount wanted him to play a homosexual murderer in a drama called The Witness , to be directed by Milos Forman . |
| 13 | First she wanted Dot to be nice , next she wanted her to put a filthy thumb in her mouth and suck it . |
| 14 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 15 | Although they knew they would never forget Jennie , the Girls wanted her to have a permanent memorial so they had a collection and made a most practical and fitting choice : a marble floor for the church of St Stephen on the Cliffs , Blackpool . |
| 16 | He wanted it to replace the official versions in the liturgy . |
| 17 | The cat 's owner was leaving the area and could not keep the animal , and she wanted it to have a nice home . |
| 18 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 19 | I wanted us to spend a few hours together , just talking and relaxing . ’ |
| 20 | There we were briefed by local staff who wanted us to keep a seaward eye on the local Colliers from Rotterdam following an outbreak of watch smuggling in Poole . |