Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 2 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the stream situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |
| 3 | She wanted to remain in the earthy warmth of the glass-house , watching him pricking out seedlings . |
| 4 | Ingush members of the Provisional Council had resigned , making it clear that they wanted to remain in the Russian Federation . |
| 5 | Maintaining initial capital intact would be useless if you wanted to remain in the same business . |
| 6 | I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again . |
| 7 | ‘ We bought our homes on Barratt 's Candleford Estate because we wanted to retire to a quiet cul-de-sac in peaceful surroundings ’ said a resident . |
| 8 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 9 | He was too tired to go to the window again , and did not know now what he wanted to see on the other side of the glass . |
| 10 | South Africa was the team that everyone — from organisers , the public , to the media — wanted to see at the 1992 Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 11 | Wilko came top by miles in a phone in vote of who YEP readers wanted to see as the new england manager ( 2nd coppell , 3rd keegan , 4th Atkinson , 5th Gerry Francis , 6th screaming lord such ) |
| 12 | Second , the student wanted to appeal to the rational side of John , to that side of him which could see the futility of his actions . |
| 13 | So Mr is actually going to er talk about that but I just wanted to go through a little sort of resolution , I mean if , if you looked at it , if you looked at number one , it says express this opposition to further expansion and then it goes on and lists Stansted and Luton , but this expansion goes now I mean Stansted is expanding erm daily . |
| 14 | That barrier , a common external tariff , was integral to the Treaty of Rome , which wanted to go beyond a free trade area to a customs union , which the Six believed was a far more effective way of developing the potential of their internal market , the logic of which would ultimately oblige them to adopt common policies and harmonise their regulations . |
| 15 | we wanted to go for a wee meal erm afterwards and it meant er made an awfully late night with the , having the baby-sitter , got Christine next door coming in to baby-sit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He felt he wanted to go to the gipsy encampment and tell Boz that Anna could not marry Nahum . |
| 18 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted to go into the Royal Air Force , always did . |
| 20 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 21 | to ensure that the shorter-term budgets and plans were consistent with where the company wanted to go in the longer run |
| 22 | Miss Armstrong said Labour wanted to work alongside the existing CTCs to bring them within the mainstream education system . |
| 23 | Finally , there 's Joel Finler 's remarkable The Hollywood Story ( Pyramid ) which purports to tell you ‘ everything you always wanted to know about the American movie business but did n't know where to look ’ . |
| 24 | His stride was impatient , as if he wanted to pass through the tangled undergrowth and brambles as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | The Shah suggested , and the White House agreed , that the visit would provide a good chance for Carter to talk to King Hussein , whom both men wanted to encourage into the Israeli-Egyptian peace process . |
| 26 | He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director . |
| 27 | I wanted to curl into a tiny ball and be forgotten about by everyone . |
| 28 | Jasper wanted to talk about the two days down at Melstead , about the pickets , the excitement of it all , the arrest , the night in |
| 29 | Once he went to the house in Stone Alley and was met at the door by Maggie Byrne , but she only wanted to talk about the undersized child in her arms whose life he had saved . |
| 30 | It seemed that nobody at RD wanted to talk to a lucky winner . |