Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | South Africa was the team that everyone — from organisers , the public , to the media — wanted to see at the 1992 Hong Kong Sevens . |
| 8 | 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 ) |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He felt he wanted to go to the gipsy encampment and tell Boz that Anna could not marry Nahum . |
| 11 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to go into the Royal Air Force , always did . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | to ensure that the shorter-term budgets and plans were consistent with where the company wanted to go in the longer run |
| 15 | Miss Armstrong said Labour wanted to work alongside the existing CTCs to bring them within the mainstream education system . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | His stride was impatient , as if he wanted to pass through the tangled undergrowth and brambles as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jasper wanted to talk about the two days down at Melstead , about the pickets , the excitement of it all , the arrest , the night in |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I wanted to talk to the famous pianist before his concert . |
| 22 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 23 | The film people wanted to shoot in the local pub , but the landlord refused them permission , explaining that he did not want to inconvenience his regular customers , despite being offered a tidy sum as recompense . |
| 24 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 25 | In an earlier reply he suggested that in Northern Ireland , those who wanted to volunteer for the Territorial Army Volunteer Reserve could volunteer for some other service . |
| 26 | The former aristocratic standards of who and what was acceptable were now dumped ; everyone wanted to belong to the new meritocracy , based not on birth but on talent , achievement , and the resultant financial reward — the with-it people , as opposed to the dull , unwith-its . |
| 27 | He wanted to bask in the developing closeness he and Jordan were enjoying , surfing sensorial highs , and being utterly open , perhaps for the first time in his life . |
| 28 | The SARFU wanted to play the test at Johannesburg 's Ellis Park , the biggest ground in the country , where gate receipts would be huge , while the ARFU wanted to play at the low altitude venues of either Durban 's King 's Park or Cape Town 's Newlands Stadium . |
| 29 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |