Example sentences of "that he wanted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was evident that he wanted to be not simply in the forest , but somehow at one with it ; rooted in the same fertile earth . |
| 2 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 3 | It is difficult to avoid the impression that he wanted to still Western protests about the destruction of Romania 's heritage with this dramatic act of transferring churches from one site to another , but was also aware that within the foreseeable future the physical structures of the church would crumble into dust . |
| 4 | He went to all the openings , parties and dinners that he wanted to and frequently did not see Constance for several days . |
| 5 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 6 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | My husband said once that he wanted to be dead but still to be . |
| 8 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 9 | He was n't even sure that he wanted to . |
| 10 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 11 | I know perfectly well that when he was chairman of the Greater London council he wanted an elected police authority , and I think that he wanted to be chairman of it |
| 12 | The pity of it is that the Prime Minister , who said that he wanted to be at the heart of the process , has instead condemned this country to be semi-detached from it . |
| 13 | He also said that he wanted to be " a bridge between the leadership of MPLA and UNITA " . |
| 14 | Well , that was because — but , try as she could , there seemed to be no other reason except that he wanted to . |
| 15 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 16 | Clinton spoke in a hoarse voice , saying that he wanted to ‘ bring our people together as never before so that our diversity can be a source of strength in a world that is ever-smaller ’ . |