Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London . |
| 2 | Roles contacted a local cricket club , told them he wanted to photograph a bowler in action , and asked if they could help . |
| 3 | He told them he wanted to paddle to Norway . |
| 4 | ‘ Sam Hall told me they wanted me to stay on — but I would have to accept a lease , ’ John said . |
| 5 | He 's a sharp operator , adept at playing the angles , continually bouncing gags off the course of a meandering conversation which takes in flotation tanks ( ’ They told me they wanted to recreate the conditions of the womb , but that 's all I need : some jerk in a white coat stabbing me with an ice-pick for half an hour ’ ) : Panama ( ’ Most American casualties over there were self-inflicted , but that 's because we have a lot of Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics in the armed services and some guys get confused ; some Hispanics shot themselves , they 're that loyal ’ ) ; even , somehow , the British motorway system ( ’ Driving up the M1 ! |
| 6 | Charlie said , ‘ You told me you wanted the same kind of deal that Chrissie had . |
| 7 | ‘ You told me you wanted to get away from it all , to recharge your batteries after all the craziness . |
| 8 | Now he told me he wanted to end it with Susan , and he begged my help and would I come down to New Orleans . ’ |
| 9 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he was sincere when he told me he wanted to stay in France . |
| 11 | Robin Wright told the jury : ‘ Mick told me he wanted Linda to make love to me . |
| 12 | ‘ But then he told me he wanted to be a woman . |
| 13 | ‘ Marty , the director , was very wise to wait until the end of filming because he never told me he wanted me to do it . |
| 14 | She told me she wants to do it . |
| 15 | She told me she wants some more of them tabard tops . |
| 16 | David said : ‘ Kylie told me she wanted our romance to end because she had a lot of pressure from work — she was always very busy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She told me she wanted to work on her own . |
| 18 | But she just told me she wanted her hair done . |
| 19 | I told you they want to do another X-ray , and they 're sending him to Carlisle for that , the Cumberland Infirmary . ’ |
| 20 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I told you I wanted to talk , ’ she reminded him in a carefully colourless voice . |
| 22 | Have n't done it , but I told you I wanted it today . |
| 23 | Have n't done it , but I told you I wanted it in today . |
| 24 | Oh I 'm sorry , but there was only that one which is all , it 's got her latest stuff on it , I 'm not really keen on anything else , it 's got those last , you know the sort of her last few records of it , on it I should say I did n't know there was any others around , when I told you I wanted the Cher one , it was the one that was out now not the old ones . |
| 25 | The Britons told him they want western governments to negotiate with Iraq . |
| 26 | One month before the overdose , she told him she wanted to end the relationship and he had reluctantly accepted this . |
| 27 | Smith , 44 , of Hyde , Cheshire , who had been married to Norma for 23 years , snapped when she told him she wanted him out of the house and made ‘ unflattering comparisons ’ between him and her lover , Kenneth Ormiston . |
| 28 | He once made her a beaded jacket so beautiful she told him she wanted to be buried in it . |
| 29 | She told him she wanted to buy more cows . |
| 30 | She should have stayed with him , told him she wanted to understand , held him in her arms while he released the terrible pain she had sensed inside him . |