Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] wanted [to-vb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that the drawing I wanted to tackle was the complicated head-dress worn by the bridge at the wedding celebrations , as it is colourful and unusual . |
| 2 | Er , but the point I wanted to make was that , after trying for twelve months , first of all , er , I wrote to my local M P . |
| 3 | She knew that Ana was safe with Mitch and the last person she wanted to see was Candace Rainford . |
| 4 | Paul , whose remark had been the opening move in a carefully planned campaign to enhance Bodo 's image so that his plan to leave school and work with him would not meet resistance , meekly accepted the rebuke and the order , especially as the television he wanted to watch was a rock concert . |
| 5 | Frequently , the scientific understanding needed for the progress he wanted to make was not available to him and the work he began did not bear fruit until after his death . |
| 6 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 7 | ‘ The last thing I wanted to do was teach . |
| 8 | Allen claimed last night : ‘ The last thing I wanted to do was go to court . |
| 9 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were many times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |
| 10 | ‘ I reached such a low ebb that there were times when the last thing I wanted to do was to go out and play golf . |
| 11 | The last thing I wanted to do was debate the horrific possibilities of Salome 's condition with Les Girls . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , anyway … the last thing I wanted to do was to get involved in a fight — especially as I had the children with me . |
| 13 | and the last thing I wanted to do was give , give erm give you anything because |
| 14 | And the third thing I wanted to say is we 've got one or two handouts for you which are on the front table at the moment , about various broadcasting situations and press releases , the three coloured bits of paper . |
| 15 | The last thing she wanted to do was to encourage their flaring in response to an incautious comment , especially as , since he had got his own way about her not flying out that day , his behaviour had been impeccable . |
| 16 | But the last thing she wanted to do was make a scene . |
| 17 | Sophie glanced at Joanna , who shrugged , then at Helen , who was looking anxious , and , although Mr Greenwood 's attitude towards professional etiquette was more than a little arrogant , the last thing she wanted to do was to upset her godmother . |
| 18 | ‘ The last thing we wanted to do was move , ’ explains John , ‘ But we needed some extra cash to build an extension for our growing family . |
| 19 | This was just an excuse : the real reason they wanted to come was that they very much needed food at home . |
| 20 | Right okay what he is saying is erm that first of all the peasants hit the landlords politically erm and the first thing they wanted to do was smash the political prestige and power of the landlord class erm without victory in this struggle no victory is possible in the economic struggle to reduce rent and interest er to secure land and other factors of production . |
| 21 | The only thing they wanted to hear was that the prophet had said that everyone could go to Zap Zone and stay there for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 22 | The last thing he wanted to do was leave a trail for them . |
| 23 | The last thing he wanted to do was panic Larsen , but he had to warn him before the dogs spotted him and gave tongue . |
| 24 | And this is why I think the approach that Harrogate would perhaps be thinking of and we ourselves would be thinking of if this is the way we wanted to go is simply to go out and get a site and get planning permission on it . |