Example sentences of "[noun] and i wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are both disreputable practitioners of empty trades and I wanted to — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I took the photograph and I wanted to stride across to you , to confront you with your father , but he would not allow it . ’ |
| 3 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 4 | Yeah but like if wan na catch someone out , like you go say you were talking to Scott and I wanted to find out something and like I go Scott , and like I 'll be going up close to him , I 'm literally doing this , I 'm going Scott ? |
| 5 | There were a lot or arguments about those first four half hours where I think it became apparent that Tony wanted to write a different type of series to the one David and I wanted . |
| 6 | I thought it was rather grand to be going to supper on the boat and I wanted her to tell me all about it later but I never saw her again . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course I wanted him to produce me , I love his work , but I only wanted him to produce half the album and I wanted to work with other producers . |
| 8 | It was a great statement of friendship and I wanted to thank him , but appreciated he would be offended . |
| 9 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 10 | He seemed to know a lot about female mysteries and I wanted him to explain . |
| 11 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you know why Heinrich and I wanted to come back here ? ’ |
| 13 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 14 | I mean I remember when I was at the New York Times and I wanted to use Cheltenham wide for a headline , Cheltenham bold well sort of bold wide , but it 's just called Cheltenham wide in the book , and because Cheltenham was always part of the New York Times library , whatever you call it , in the composing room . |
| 15 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 16 | But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass . |
| 17 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 18 | I was real good at sports and I wanted to be a professional football player . |
| 19 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 21 | ‘ Both Abbot Bere and I wanted an end to all this nonsense . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He is my Uncle ; we 've shared the same house for twenty years and I wanted to be with him . |
| 23 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 24 | The outside did n't match the inside and I wanted them all to kind of get together . |
| 25 | She says I did it because it was good fun and I wanted to help people … |
| 26 | I think it 's hard to be honest with yourself about certain things and I wanted to think that I had no part in the grandiosity of MainMan and a lot of the bad things about MainMan . |
| 27 | I 'm catching the midnight train to Paris and I wanted to see you before I left . |
| 28 | no I ca n't and she would n't get off the phone and I wanted to get to the phone and she said , phone me up Is it all right then , I 'll phone him afterwards ! |
| 29 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 30 | ‘ My sister 's getting married next week and I wanted to know whether there 'd be any chance of a spot of leave . ’ |