Example sentences of "[pers pn] wanted [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to apologise for that , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I wanted to apologise for that . ’ |
| 3 | I wanted to weep for an enormous violent sensuality I would never know again . |
| 4 | It felt light in his arms ; a child starved of love and food and warmth : ‘ And although a part of me , deep buried , hidden away , knew , ’ he said , ‘ still I wanted to weep for the pity of it . ’ |
| 5 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 6 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 7 | The drawings and ultimately the painting were things I wanted to do for myself as well . |
| 8 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |
| 9 | I found a pattern of hers , jacket in white in that bag what for a cardigan I wanted to do for school |
| 10 | She told me there were fish in the lake and I wanted to see for myself . ’ |
| 11 | I wanted to see for myself what Mrs Thatcher has to say . |
| 12 | I wanted to ask for help with the relics , and I wanted some moral support , but it felt wrong somehow , sort of like sneaking to an adult ; an adult I did n't even believe in . |
| 13 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't cook much , ’ he said , ‘ but I wanted to cook for you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I wanted to win for them . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It 's nice to prove people wrong , but first and foremost I wanted to win for my own satisfaction . |
| 17 | But I wanted to work for myself . |
| 18 | ‘ You have to look ahead to the time when you leave football , and I wanted to prepare for a life in sport and leisure management , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 20 | I wanted to pay for my crime . |
| 21 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 22 | I wanted to play for Wales — at anything , tiddly winks , snooker , anything at all . |
| 23 | ‘ I wanted to know for myself , hard and clear , with my own ears what he knew about Ephraim . ’ |
| 24 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In taking this on , there 's a responsibility goes with it , sure , and it was a weird sensation at first being in the studio and feeling that if I wanted to fight for something with the producer , I did n't have any allies … |
| 26 | Robbo quite rightly got his chance and it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to fight for my place or not . |
| 27 | She wanted to weep for the ecstasy she would never know now . |
| 28 | First she wanted to learn and see , she wanted to wait for a man who did things and was something on his own . |
| 29 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 30 | ‘ She came home from Guides one day and said she wanted to try for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award , ’ recalls Rosemarie . |