Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to pay them but told Gina she must give some Italian lessons or something in future if she wanted to treat herself to things like that . |
| 2 | Well they reckoned he when he walked out so what was it er Francis wanted to see him on grass or something . |
| 3 | She wanted to see him in loons ; she let him buy her those boots . |
| 4 | Your Dad said he was coming over to visit you too , and wanted to see something of Prague . |
| 5 | ‘ I really wanted to see you on behalf of Annabel , ’ Scott said . |
| 6 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 7 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 8 | Bert , because he wanted to reinstate himself with Pat , took command and , his white teeth showing in the thickets of his beard while he offered a steady , responsible , forceful smile said , " I can appreciate the comrades ' reservations . |
| 9 | I just wanted to know what on page forty-two under ‘ Water sampling ’ , what the bracketing figures say four u stroke s , one u stroke s , etcetera meant , and on page forty-three , why under ‘ programme and revisiting inspection ’ this four one nine p was starred . |
| 10 | Mam and Da wanted to know everything about Rosie 's life since they saw her last — where had she been , what had she done — but she only shook her head . |
| 11 | If one wanted to meet someone in London who is in fact elsewhere and had to spend a morning travelling which one could pleasantly have spent in bed , then the desire to travel can be faulted . |
| 12 | ‘ Panic wanted to sell us to Albania but Arkan is a hero . |
| 13 | They wanted to sell us as slaves in the markets there . |
| 14 | Wainfleet refused to tell her any more as he wanted to pump her about Hunter-Blair . |
| 15 | I wanted to suggest it to Sarah but I did n't know how Mam would feel about it . |
| 16 | He wanted to cover himself with glory , and what better way than getting accepted by this new elite . |
| 17 | Hilary Todd 's contempt was still stinging him ; he wanted to cover it with pain he really owned . |
| 18 | But the FOBs have , in the past , liked their man not just because he was interested in ideas for their own sake , but because he wanted to apply them to government . |
| 19 | ‘ It is just a pity Gary chose to go to QPR when I wanted to buy him from Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 20 | ‘ Recently I decided I wanted to do something on prostitution . |
| 21 | that I wanted to do something about safety or first aid and that 's it . |
| 22 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 23 | Steve had done several pieces for solo instruments with tape , and he decided he wanted to do one for guitar . |
| 24 | It was a big step to do it and I wanted to do it for Freddie . |
| 25 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |
| 26 | Yet she only wanted to do it with Lord George . |
| 27 | Yeah , they wanted to put it in Norwich |
| 28 | She wanted to give herself to Guy Sterne . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |
| 30 | Poindexter 's expression all through his testimony was one of mystification , shrouded in patient smoke , as if he really could not think why all these people wanted to ply him with questions . |