Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel it pulling me in , but I wanted to remain a bachelor . |
| 2 | So I wanted to remain a listener , still be excited by other people 's music and so I 've always remained a listener . |
| 3 | O'Keeffe 's immediate reaction to the criticism generated by the 1923 show is not known , but it is clear from a letter she wrote to Mitchell Kennerley of the Anderson Gallery in the autumn of 1922 , soon after Rosenfeld 's second article appeared , that she had objected from the beginning to Hartley 's and Rosenfeld 's assessments of her and her art : ‘ You see Rosenfeld 's articles have embarrassed me — [ and ] I wanted to lose the one for the Hartley book when I had the only copy of it to read — so it could n't be in the book . ’ |
| 4 | I just wanted to alert the staff in case any of you have seen or heard anything suspicious . ’ |
| 5 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 6 | ‘ The Bangles wanted to emphasise the rock'n'roll side of the band and in doing so thought regalia and kind of hippyish , Hendrix-style clothing was gon na put that image across , but it ended up looking very glamorous , it ended up looking glammier and glammier even though the intention was for it not to be glamour … |
| 7 | FIGURE 1 In this five by four foot painting I wanted to emphasise the strength of the granite structure , so I decided to counter-balance the sense of its solidity with a diffused and scumbled sky , Figures , walls and railings were initially indicated and loose brush strokes of warm pink applied to the sky area . |
| 8 | Presumably Rance wanted to emphasise the ‘ All-Party ’ nature of the group . |
| 9 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 10 | He watched them rushing through Calais on their way to pay court to Napoleon ( Sonnet : ‘ Is it a reed that 's shaken by the wind ’ ) , and decided , since he regarded the French leader as a despot and a menace to free institutions , that the only course open was to support that party in England which wanted to continue the war , namely the Tories . |
| 11 | They wanted to continue the foster placement . |
| 12 | However , he had come to make it clear that he wanted to continue the arrangement he 'd had with Kattina . |
| 13 | The spread was partly due to the initiative of former pupils of deaf schools who wanted to continue the friendships which school life had forged and to help one another in adulthood , and partly to the evangelistic zeal and charitable urge of hearing people associated with deaf schools , who realised that deaf and dumb children needed support also in adult life . |
| 14 | for example , a short recall of the original theme ( perhaps using only one sentence ) would be sufficient if we wanted to continue the theme by introducing yet another period of change . |
| 15 | They wanted to sacrifice the wage so that they could feel they had personally taken part in the humiliation of the local landlords . |
| 16 | The liberals wanted to promote a modern secular understanding of religion as a largely private matter which should be pursued in such a manner as not to offend people of other religions . |
| 17 | James was by European standards a clear-sighted ruler who wanted to gain a little more of the authority over his subjects to which all kings were entitled , but by the standards of Englishmen he was a ruthless tyrant with the additional vices that he wanted to promote the cause of Roman Catholicism and was willing to infringe the rights of property . |
| 18 | ‘ As I expect you are aware , Mr Leland , my room in your Private Wing is booked from this evening , but as I wanted to attend a regimental dinner tonight , with Mr Remington-Hart 's consent I 'm not moving in until tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Primakov asked him to remind the meeting that the Soviet Union wanted to attend the G7 summit in London . |
| 20 | She wanted to attend the eunoto and the women 's circumcision and understand everything about betrothals . |
| 21 | Now there are occasions where members legitimately need to attend committees to speak to something in which they have an interest but the difficulty is , that in the past when we had permanent chairman , a member who wanted to attend the meeting had to ask the permission of that permanent chairman and there are occasions when that permanent chairman thought , well , there is no need for that member to attend and he has said no . |
| 22 | ‘ Just said he wanted to report a blue Fiat abandoned on the road to Cannara , near the scene of the murder . ’ |
| 23 | And that 's when you get the problems , I had a chap ring me , he wanted to report a crime , and he says well you 're only just down the road , at , I said no I 'm not I 'm at Sherwood Lodge , he said I did n't ring Sherwood Lodge I rang police station |
| 24 | The authors wanted to estimate the mean height of the population from which recruits were drawn . |
| 25 | So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ? |
| 26 | Hull city council , which Ministers accept is a good , efficiently run council , wanted to enforce the law , but , in practice , it can not be enforced . |
| 27 | An American official said Washington wanted to enforce the international oil and arms embargo against the country . |
| 28 | This is why Jesus came , as the God-man , to redeem the evil of the man-God , who wanted to usurp the place of God in creation . |
| 29 | He did n't want to know anything he wanted to drive the crane so he give me a start . |
| 30 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |