Example sentences of "and wanted to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were finally off to Italy and wanted to make an early start . |
| 2 | But it was n't an easy task because he was dealing with Kirk who was running the company and wanted to make sure the picture was made on his terms because he had a lot at stake . |
| 3 | Police believe they lost their clothes on a stag night and wanted to make chips . |
| 4 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 5 | I had staked a lot on coming to Ghana and wanted to make a contribution . |