Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catholics were rebels who only wanted to destroy not only Northern Ireland but also the Protestant nature of the rest of the British Isles and the only thing which maintained civil liberties was adherence to the Protestant faith . |
| 2 | How awful , after all , to be wishing that people who only wanted to help would go away and leave her alone . |
| 3 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 4 | She had been held in high esteem by numerous people who all wanted to pay their respect . |
| 5 | The fire brigade reappeared , bringing them some council inspector , who obviously wanted to evacuate the house . |
| 6 | According to hearsay , Bez had managed to break his arm — twice ; Shaun was there in body but his head was elsewhere ; and there were persistent rumours of rifts between the pair and the rest of the band , who just wanted to get their heads down and get on with work rather than get on one . |
| 7 | For the O level people and those who just wanted to work , mucking around was seen to be unfair both to them because it held them back and to the teachers : here they interpret ‘ mucking about ’ wholly within the official theory of schooling . |
| 8 | The older men , who still wanted to attend live games , learned to avoid either of the ‘ ends ’ , and with falling attendances there was no difficulty in finding a relatively safe place elsewhere in the ground . |
| 9 | Guests who still wanted to explore the lagoons and sea-flats could use Wavebreaker 's skiff . |
| 10 | He overbore Neville Chamberlain and the others who still wanted to ride for a fall on a bold safeguarding policy . |
| 11 | By 1945 that policy had worked , and anyone who still wanted to get lost in mazes like Pound 's Cantos was to be left to pursue his passion like a solitary vice . |
| 12 | Porterfield was a good player who always wanted to become a manager . |
| 13 | God had changed things but God had been defeated : she would believe that for ever , she would go on repeating it to herself to anyone else who ever wanted to know . |
| 14 | Suddenly , they were attacked by a dybbuk in the form of a hitherto placid woodsman who now wanted to eat the band of travellers . |
| 15 | There were lots of hopefuls who would have been journalists if they had pursued a career , or who now wanted to learn . |
| 16 | ‘ Even at school there were players more skilful than me , but I was the one who really wanted to do it in every game . |
| 17 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 18 | Would n't stop anyone who really wanted to get me . ’ |
| 19 | The 1970s and 1980s saw large increases in turnover and in the average size of transaction , which meant greater risks for the jobbers who often wanted to know the direction of the deal before quoting a price . |
| 20 | A fan who was totally uncommitted to the culture , who simply wanted to watch the match , would probably choose not to go into the London Road End at all but rather to one of the quieter side terraces . |
| 21 | Purchasers ranged from dealers to those who simply wanted to re-live some happy moments from their childhood . |
| 22 | Idealistic friars now put their arguments for a propertyless church to the service of Gaunt and other laymen who simply wanted to avail themselves of church wealth for the relief of their own tax burden . |
| 23 | ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |
| 24 | He , like his colleagues , had informal conversations with HMIs — who sometimes wanted to become too involved in visits , where they were ‘ in attendance ’ . |
| 25 | Seles was knifed in the back during a quarter-final match at the Citizen Cup in Hamburg on April 30 by a German who allegedly wanted to help Steffi Graf regain her number one world ranking . |
| 26 | ‘ We were also stopped and interrogated by a para-military vigilante force who again wanted to know who we were and what were doing . ’ |
| 27 | But she , who had run fifteen thousand miles to find her freedom , she who had driven Jim out of the house rather than wash his dirty teacups , was now a slave to someone who never washed their cups , who was never interested in her ideas , who never wanted to talk , hear , understand , sympathise , who hurt one 's body as no one had ever hurt it before and who chained one forever to mountains , not just of washing-up , but of washing itself . |