Example sentences of "[noun] he wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 2 | The Labour party , when O'Brien was a TD , was committed to a change , but Dick Spring saw that as an obstacle to the Labour-Fianna Fail coalition he wanted . |
| 3 | But that was not enough to give Mussolini the bargaining leverage he wanted . |
| 4 | Nichols knew every colour , texture and nuance he wanted and worked like hell to get it . |
| 5 | She had to get a grip on her ridiculous emotions , had to keep reminding herself that it was only the club he wanted . |
| 6 | Another man drove into the street , to look at a car he wanted to buy , and left his Peugeot unlocked with the child inside . |
| 7 | Then the actor told his agent he wanted to see his name up in lights at the cinema . |
| 8 | Back home from Japan , Campbell told the department he wanted results fast . |
| 9 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 10 | He waited as , unusually , Connors seemed to experience difficulty in putting the words he wanted together . |
| 11 | Words he wanted to hear . |
| 12 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |
| 13 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 14 | It was a mouth he wanted to get to know . |
| 15 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 16 | Some aspect of Li Yuan he wanted to keep from her ? |
| 17 | Horowitz told the guard he wanted to call the Frankfurt office . |
| 18 | Oh no wonder he wanted you to set off early . |
| 19 | No wonder he wanted you to set off early , he did n't know where he was going . |
| 20 | In most districts the same person held the posts of justice of the peace and police magistrate , but it was necessary for the complainant to determine in which capacity he wanted this official to act . |
| 21 | Eliot 's early and best criticism was what he called ‘ workshop ’ criticism , an attempt to realign literary tradition in the interests of the kind of poetry he wanted to write . |
| 22 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 23 | He had all the rugby he wanted , he said . |
| 24 | He told us last May he wanted to see freight switched from road to rail . |
| 25 | His voice betrayed him ; she saw at once it was Jake he wanted to talk about . |
| 26 | As he climbed to the top of his stylistic hierarchy Tolkien on occasion wrote in the responses he wanted instead of evoking them . |
| 27 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 28 | ‘ Is that the boy he wanted to bring home in the holidays ? ’ his father demanded . |
| 29 | Sara silently handed him the ingredients he wanted and found the mustard pot . |
| 30 | It 's all to do with the C.O. He wanted to court-martial me , only I heard them trying to find me so I hid in the latrines and I do n't know what happened in the end . |