Example sentences of "and i wanted [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 2 | I was real good at sports and I wanted to be a professional football player . |
| 3 | They are both disreputable practitioners of empty trades and I wanted to — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He is my Uncle ; we 've shared the same house for twenty years and I wanted to be with him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | If I was in a bad mood or something and I wanted to be on my own it would be , ‘ Ah , have you had an argument with the girlfriend ? |
| 9 | But we used to en I used to enjoy going to it , as I say until I got older and I wanted to sort of stretch my wings a little bit and and I did other things . |
| 10 | and I wanted to erm you know , just travel from village to village but erm it was quite amazing how God said you 're coming to Harlow . |
| 11 | And I wanted to be doing something so I went I went back to nursing . |
| 12 | and I wanted to , and eh we had done my blood taken for all kinds of tests |