Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , it was an unusual situation they were in and they wanted an answer , said Phil Jordan to John Coffin on the telephone . |
| 2 | I remember one night he come here and ooh it was a hard hard frost and he was and he slept in the barn , and he went in and he wanted a dram of water to have his drink through the night , and it was hard hard frost , and the water trough for the horses was down here , of course it when he |
| 3 | ‘ He sat down and we wanted to get on with the game and try for another goal , so I wanted him off . |
| 4 | The tandem was forever breaking down and I wanted to fix it — so I took a course in cycle mechanics . |
| 5 | He felt she was about to laugh aloud and he wanted to join her , his every thought consumed with the miracle that had so suddenly happened to bring Ken back to them . |
| 6 | In days gone by there had been little differences between the members of the party on the war policy , but the war was now over and they wanted to unite all their forces … |
| 7 | They wanted it over and he wanted it over . |
| 8 | It had gone down hill before she took over and she wanted to turn it around again . ’ |
| 9 | And I bought two secondhand books yesterday and she wanted one of them so |
| 10 | She wanted to go back home and he wanted to fulfil his mission and destroy the shapechangers . |
| 11 | up and she wanted five hundred pounds |
| 12 | The trouble is I mean if , if it did , it came up and he wanted to sell it would of it would obviously decrease the value . |
| 13 | " I suddenly felt I had to get out and I wanted your company . |
| 14 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry , I mean I 'm pregnant and , er , you said you could help me the day after tomorrow and I wanted to know if … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Eight or ten men came to the training ground as we finished at about 12am and they wanted statements from all of us . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |
| 18 | Weenie and Co. might be at school then and he wanted a word with Sarah on her own . |
| 19 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 20 | It was being sharpened there and he wanted to have the grass mown by the time his wife and children came back . |
| 21 | Now his fingers were pressuring over the skin inside her wrist again and she wanted to snatch her hand away , but , as if guessing her intention , he tightened his grip , pulling her a centimetre — no , more — towards him . |
| 22 | Now you used to say perhaps there 's an hourly service , er an hourly run from Witton to Rushmere and back again and you wanted a ten minute service . |
| 23 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 24 | I made you live again and I wanted to know there was more than mere excitement for you . ’ |
| 25 | His boots scuffed the gravel briefly and she wanted to apologise , then he swung round . |
| 26 | and the one 's too late I like that one too and I wanted to buy it as |