Example sentences of "wanted them [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wanted them to represent a section of the community that was quite close in the social hierarchy to the inner-city population , and in the event many speakers in the samples had inner-city social and family contacts . |
| 2 | I wanted them to have a programme they could say they watched simply because they liked and enjoyed it . ’ |
| 3 | Tolkien wanted his poems to make good sense in their dramatic context , as part of the story of The Lord of the Rings ; he also wanted them to suggest a truth independent of their context . |
| 4 | They were enough to stretch a teacher who wanted them to learn the beauty of poetry . |
| 5 | I wanted them to learn the piano and both did learn . |
| 6 | He wanted them to write a television show for him . |