Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] back [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children wanted to go back to school . |
| 2 | She wanted to go back to bed to hug inside herself lovely warm memories of last night , of the fantastic Miguelito 's gentle voice and wisdom , his unforgettable kisses , and his strong dependability . |
| 3 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 4 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 5 | She wanted to go back to England , to return to school , but she could n't . |
| 6 | Alain was in a black mood and Marguerite was trying hard to pretend she wanted to go back to Paris . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , how would you feel if at some point in the future I said I wanted to go back to Australia ? ’ |
| 8 | As that interest had waned , Perrin now wanted to go back to fundamentals . |
| 9 | Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up |
| 10 | He wondered if he ought to wait , but he wanted to get back to Rochester before she came afloat . |
| 11 | To cap it all , we then made a forced passage back to Oban in a force eight south west gale as Sam wanted to get back to Southampton in time for a wedding . |
| 12 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
| 13 | , of course , was a chapel man and er I think they saw , or some of them saw him er a in him a way round , out of things , and , of course , he did deals with the collieries to get people back to work , and whilst families had enjoyed six months in the gardens and doing all sorts of strange things , erm the men mainly wanted to get back to work , because they saw time running out . |
| 14 | I did n't want to stay at home I wanted to get back into education and I did n't know how to the easiest way I suppose . |
| 15 | I wanted to move back to London because my job is getting more demanding . ’ |
| 16 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |