Example sentences of "and i wanted a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sorry to get you here so early , ’ he said , ‘ but Angela 's death means we have to reorganize the entire workload , and I wanted a longer meeting today . |
| 2 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway , I thought I could be doing better things here , and I wanted a hot drink and I was feeling a bit peckish . |
| 4 | I wanted Rickie to stop using it , and I wanted a friend to stop using it as well , and so I learned everything I could . ’ |
| 5 | Not bad considering he was the only puppy in the litter — and I wanted a bitch ! ’ |
| 6 | But Havel 's plays , apart from being very penetrating , are very funny , and I wanted a cast who could play high comedy . |
| 7 | So if this was my second policy you sold me , and I wanted a minimum premium contract , how much would the minimum premium be ? |
| 8 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 9 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 10 | which was one of the good stores and I wanted a bolster case |
| 11 | ‘ Both Abbot Bere and I wanted an end to all this nonsense . ’ |