Example sentences of "wanted go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to go along the side passage and up the back stairs to the bedroom with the toys where she could safely hide . |
| 2 | Peter Thompson now explained that he wanted to go beyond the concept of a management buy-out and to involve all the staff who wanted to buy shares . |
| 3 | However , he always managed to get the team to wherever they wanted to go despite the problem . |
| 4 | Marie wanted to go on the Pill when she was fifteen : |
| 5 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 6 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 7 | I do n't know the reasons , I 'm only guessing , but the fact remains that a group captain , no less , came over to Bourn from Huntingdon to attend our squadron 's briefing , and then decided he wanted to go on the mission too . |
| 8 | ‘ He wanted to go on the dodgems and Nanny would n't let him . ’ |
| 9 | I just wanted to go to the bathroom . |
| 10 | In the spring she said she wanted to go to the sea , to a warmer place . |
| 11 | For example , Jenny wanted to go to the park , but her father said there was n't time before tea . |
| 12 | She made it clear ( I do n't remember how ) that she wanted to go to the back of the house , to the kitchen . |
| 13 | Oliver wanted to go to the beach . |
| 14 | Pempie wanted to go to the psychiatrist because she 's very keen on astrology and sends away for readings . |
| 15 | Like every other aspiring young artist , I wanted to go to the Slade or the RCA ( Royal College of Art ) to do a post-graduate degree . |
| 16 | I wanted to go to the toilet |
| 17 | But er er Bren wanted to go to the pub |
| 18 | But suppose I was in the bathroom , and wanted to go to the kitchen . |
| 19 | But I 'll just well they both wanted to go to the car . |
| 20 | I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash . |
| 21 | ‘ He only wanted to go to the out-patients . |
| 22 | I wanted to go to the Yorkshire Moors or the Lake District : I had romantic visions of myself as a drystone waller , indomitable against the elements . |
| 23 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 24 | No one wanted to go to the dog 's house . |
| 25 | The books , the prints , the articles , the parodies , the paintings , the poetry — everyone wanted to go to the Lakes and of course the war with the French had made it all but impossible for most people to travel abroad . |
| 26 | We 've been out this morning , that 's right , we got back in and I was then going to go over to Saint Mary 's church club , I wanted to go to the bank at Saint Mary 's church , and erm , back door bell goes ding ding ding ding ding and I think it 's Chris cos Chris is normally the only one , go out there and who should it be ? |
| 27 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 28 | Tired , too : she lay awake at night , thinking , and came down several mornings so pale that Auntie Lou wanted to go to the chemist and buy her a tonic . |
| 29 | It was a conscious choice that I wanted to go into the company , but I did n't have a clear view as to what particular part of the business I was interested in . |
| 30 | I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group . |