Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 2 | ‘ There is a phone in number for viewers to air their opinions and he called in and said he was furious about what had happened to this poor woman and wanted to give her the money so she could buy presents for the boys . |
| 3 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 4 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 5 | I yes , I 've just had my massive little row with The Savoy about the prices and they just wanted to charge us the normal price ! |
| 6 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
| 7 | She wanted to tell him the rest of it ; tell him what Mrs Gotobed had told her to tell Mr Evans and ask Albert what he thought she had meant , but she could n't think how to put it without making herself sound fearfully stupid . |
| 8 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 9 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 10 | He wanted to tell her the truth , every known particle of it . |
| 11 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to tell you the morning you left , but you were in such a hurry to be gone and — ’ |
| 13 | I wanted your poetry to be better , wanted to show you the way into a wider perspective of words and feelings . |
| 14 | Now I have gone beyond thirty one because I just wanted to show you the way it goes and it 's easy . |
| 15 | I brought you up here because I wanted to show you the house I 've bought in Oxfordshire . |