Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIGURE 1 In this five by four foot painting I wanted to emphasise the strength of the granite structure , so I decided to counter-balance the sense of its solidity with a diffused and scumbled sky , Figures , walls and railings were initially indicated and loose brush strokes of warm pink applied to the sky area . |
| 2 | James was by European standards a clear-sighted ruler who wanted to gain a little more of the authority over his subjects to which all kings were entitled , but by the standards of Englishmen he was a ruthless tyrant with the additional vices that he wanted to promote the cause of Roman Catholicism and was willing to infringe the rights of property . |
| 3 | This is why Jesus came , as the God-man , to redeem the evil of the man-God , who wanted to usurp the place of God in creation . |
| 4 | It seems he wanted to preserve the evidence of Elfed 's attitude to him . |
| 5 | Rousseau , who was an incurable romantic , wanted to preserve the community of innocent and primitive social life , but wanted the community to take precedence over the rights of its individual members . |
| 6 | What Harry Truman wanted was for Douglas MacArthur to behave himself , he wanted Douglas MacArthur to stop giving impromptu press conferences , he wanted him to stop inventing strategy as he went without reference to the president , he simply wanted to restore the chain of command . |
| 7 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 8 | I thought you said you wanted to see the back of my head ? |
| 9 | They all wanted to see the case of the W family properly administered . |
| 10 | Few wanted to see the repeal of the Test Acts , which required that all office holders take the sacrament in accordance with the rites of the Church of England , since these measures had in part been designed against Catholics ( an important consideration when many Whigs still feared the possibility of a Stuart restoration ) . |
| 11 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
| 12 | Mr Bouez said Lebanon still wanted to see the implementation of a UN resolution demanding Israel immediately take back nearly 400 Palestinians deported to southern Lebanon . |
| 13 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 14 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 15 | The Defence Minister Gen. Fidel Ramos wanted to arrange the withdrawal of all US forces by June 12 , 1998 , the centenary of the country 's independence from Spain . |
| 16 | ‘ According to the ancient Greeks , when Zeus wanted to find the centre of the earth , he released one eagle to fly eastwards and another westwards . |
| 17 | She told Princesse Mathilde that she wanted to find the son of her old friend Andrzej Potacki , yes , yes , the Andrzej who had died with the partisans after the war . |
| 18 | I wanted to use electricity to help people , and I wanted to discover the secrets of life . |
| 19 | Newell and Simon wanted to know how our brains and minds function ; they wanted to discover the quintessence of intelligence . |
| 20 | They identified areas where IBM wanted people to develop : they wanted computer-integrated manufacturing ( CIM ) know-how ; they wanted engineers to have business skills ; they wanted people in manufacturing areas to have higher skill levels ; they wanted to increase the flexibility of the organisation . |
| 21 | I wanted to increase the efficiency of my fluorescent tubes . |
| 22 | The 1970s and 1980s saw large increases in turnover and in the average size of transaction , which meant greater risks for the jobbers who often wanted to know the direction of the deal before quoting a price . |
| 23 | One of the lawyers ' wives wanted to know the secret of Ellen 's coffee , and Ellen modestly said she just followed the percolator instructions , while the truth was that she put a cupful of cheap instant coffee powder into every percolated pot . |
| 24 | I wanted to know the secrets of life , and , most of all , I wanted to know how to make living things . |
| 25 | She wanted to know the source of it . |
| 26 | She wanted to run her fingers through his hair , wanted to nuzzle her nose and chin into his neck , wanted to know the texture of his cheek and jaw , wanted to kiss him so that her lips never forgot the shape of his . |
| 27 | Leading Comrade Wong wanted to know the weaknesses of the Chinese English students , and we said they were really very good ( which they are ) , and he asked whether we had any dissatisfactions or criticisms , and we said we did n't , which seemed almost to crestfall him , as it seems part of the Chinese way of life that criticisms should be exchanged . |
| 28 | We wanted to know the facts of life . |
| 29 | He worked out when he was born , wanted to know the time of day , when the worker would return and when he would see his wife again . |
| 30 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |