Example sentences of "[pron] i wanted [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time you came near me I wanted to put my arm round your waist . ’ |
| 2 | Now this phrase strictly controlled erm I I I wanted to ask it myself because I you know trying to push it through to what it actually means I think the county council if you like has taken it at what may be face value and said well strictly controlled must mean something . |
| 3 | I felt sorry for you I wanted to help you . " |
| 4 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 5 | I tell you something I wanted to ask you , Horseman 's Society , was that . |
| 6 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew there was something I wanted to tell you . |
| 8 | I told him I wanted to know what labour felt like first . |
| 9 | It 's not her I wanted to show you . ’ |
| 10 | when I looked at it I wanted to do it . |
| 11 | What I wanted to see you about is n't that urgent . ’ |
| 12 | erm , I I let the person do what they wanted to do and not what I wanted to do I just went along with what they said |
| 13 | R.B. Well I know what I wanted to ask you . |
| 14 | Well that 's what I wanted to ask you . |
| 15 | ‘ But what interests me , what I wanted to ask you , is about how you reacted . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm quite forgetting what I wanted to ask you . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , that 's what I wanted to ask you . |
| 18 | I stayed with it for three months , then left because it was n't what I wanted to spend my life doing . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 've told you what I wanted to tell you , and now it 's rather late . ’ |
| 20 | Ooh and another that 's what I wanted to tell you about well I do n't think we can help him out . |