Example sentences of "that wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latter is illustrated by the fact that until recently operating licences were issued more or less indiscriminately to any company that wanted to set up a sawmill . |
| 2 | Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits . |
| 3 | ‘ We never talked it out properly ; why I wanted the baby , because it was I , not us , that wanted it , true ? |
| 4 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 5 | FED UP with being Beatles copyists , the Stones invented the riff that would sustain them forever , flipped the finger to the authorities that wanted them jailed , punched hippies in the throat and threw the blues into a seething vat of hydrochloric sex acid . |
| 6 | Euratom failed completely to control and direct developments , or indeed to resist governments that wanted to weaken the supranational element in this policy area . |
| 7 | Their knowledge of society had taught these men that there was a huge audience that wanted to laugh and that comedians had to strain every nerve and to try every joke in order to release that laughter . |
| 8 | There was a sizeable part of him that wanted to exit this Dominion once and for all . |
| 9 | I. The teacher in preparing a unit or sequence of resource-based or enquiry learning asks : What have we already ? and the answer to his question requires the systematic selection and acquisition of book and non-book materials in all formats , their arrangement and storage for retrieval , the preparation of a suitable index or retrieval tool allowing the identification of suitable items however sought , and some system of controlling or monitoring the use of the materials so that wanted items can be located and reserved even when in use . |
| 10 | Where was that man that wanted |
| 11 | He had heard old men in the workhouse say it was a good place for brave boys , and that there was always work there for those that wanted it . |
| 12 | So that was a contrast from the people near the hospital where I was and , what happened was , we used to do a little service and then anybody that wanted to be seen used to come along and we needed an interpreter and it was a bit like a surgery really , and they would come with any problems , and anyone who was severely ill we would then take back in the Landrover back to the hospital . |
| 13 | The housemaid did any repairs , the needlework that wanted doing : that was the housemaid 's job . |
| 14 | Well , they 'd got the skeleton that wanted a big brass lock but er oh you know , lovely and er it was more trouble getting the thing through the pan to get er the case than putting the insides in it , if you follow what I mean . |
| 15 | What it was that wanted to come out she did not know . |
| 16 | A distillery that wanted to launch a new brand of whisky would face this situation . |
| 17 | Er I 've known er one bloke he , he 'd send for a pint of Shipstons beer when it was sixpence a pint , and then he 'd send for another pint and he 'd be drunk , or , or he 'd be ready f to fight anybody that wanted to fight him . |
| 18 | Or perhaps there was a part of her that wanted to give in . |
| 19 | Hanging the dress carefully in the wardrobe , though , she did begin to feel excited about tomorrow , a bubbly sort of excitement that wanted to express itself in singing or laughter . |
| 20 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 21 | accepting the soft body that wanted to press against his own . |
| 22 | But everybody was happy there , and er , till this came along , he 's the one that wanted us to work for less . |
| 23 | It would seem that there were forces at work that wanted to check Innocent in his recognition of lay orders and new organizations . |
| 24 | We had a great feast and lots to drink and afterwards there were recitations and a great singsong , and those that wanted to played poker . |
| 25 | well if it was your concern that wanted that sentence out , was it your concern to see that the brochure was withdrawn ? |
| 26 | But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better . |
| 27 | it was he that choose it , it was he that wanted it and you see it 's just worked out that he did n't use it . |
| 28 | I mean she said to me on Monday something about , I mean it 's her that wanted to be in , in , by the middle of March , now I never said the woman wanted to be in by March |
| 29 | The bloke the bloke that wanted it could n't wait to get his hands on it . |
| 30 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |