Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 2 | ‘ She told me she wanted to work on her own . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to come with you that night , ’ she said earnestly . |
| 4 | You said you wanted to come on my first canoe-trip . ’ |
| 5 | She wanted to talk about something other than death and danger . |
| 6 | Was that why you wanted to pry into my private life ? |
| 7 | Until 1977 the Secretary of Nigeria 's Educational Research Council had to battle his way through the appalling Lagos traffic from Apapa to Lagos Island if he wanted to consult with his Permanent Secretary or Chief Federal Adviser . |
| 8 | ‘ It was obviously something she wanted to handle on her own , ’ Melissa said gently . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ It 's nice to prove people wrong , but first and foremost I wanted to win for my own satisfaction . |
| 10 | Delaney watched her — watched the reddish hair playing around her cheek , and the lips that he suddenly wanted to cover with his own . |
| 11 | However , the developer wanted to stick by his original scheme and Coun. |
| 12 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 13 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 14 | right , well we 've not got very far erm , what I wanted to do with you next week is going to go immediately onto this programme , which I promise I 'd let you see , and the first one is actually funnily enough |
| 15 | accepting the soft body that wanted to press against his own . |
| 16 | Secondly , the switch to khozraschet meant that the press had to attract paying subscribers , who wanted to read about their own regions and not be submitted to generalized and boring directives from Moscow all the time . |
| 17 | I said there was no way I wanted to live on my own . |
| 18 | His hands stroked her body in sensual caresses , arousing her unfairly , and she desperately wanted to lean into his vital , masculine strength and inhale the fresh scent of his skin and feel its smooth perfection . |
| 19 | But he obviously wanted to get in his own trade , and I assume place came up . |
| 20 | Even though she knew she was playing with fire , knew exactly how vulnerable she was , Shannon wanted to laugh in his arrogant face . |
| 21 | He wanted to stay in his own place but Jackie and Neville were nearly driven mad running up and down to Letchworth when all that they had to do , Jackie 's full time teaching and Nev is trying to build as many kitchens or build as many doors for millionaires as he possibly can . |
| 22 | She wanted to think about his big dick up her rectum . |
| 23 | Almost any spirited teenager who lived in Detroit wanted to move to its bigger busier neighbour Now a lot of people would beg to differ that Chicago is more exciting ; Saunderson would most probably be one of them . |
| 24 | Nijman Zeetank 's UK director Clive Riggall said the company wanted to move from its former Lincoln base to the North west as one of its major customers was Pilkington Glass , based in St Helens . |
| 25 | It 's from the Bible , actually , and it would have formed a small part of what I wanted to say to you this morning ; ‘ Do n't make friends with people who have hot , violent tempers . |
| 26 | She wanted to say in her other voice , the one she had mislaid outside , So here you are at last , on my estate , in my house , at my place in front of the fire . |
| 27 | I wanted to exclaim like my Servite friend ‘ Glory be to God , ’ but it did not seem quite right . |
| 28 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |