Example sentences of "[adv] and [pers pn] wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt she was about to laugh aloud and he wanted to join her , his every thought consumed with the miracle that had so suddenly happened to bring Ken back to them . |
| 2 | She wanted to go back home and he wanted to fulfil his mission and destroy the shapechangers . |
| 3 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 4 | ‘ Sorry , I mean I 'm pregnant and , er , you said you could help me the day after tomorrow and I wanted to know if … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not suffered any leg problems since then and I wanted to run him at Newcastle but he was a little flat in November . |
| 6 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 7 | It was being sharpened there and he wanted to have the grass mown by the time his wife and children came back . |
| 8 | Now his fingers were pressuring over the skin inside her wrist again and she wanted to snatch her hand away , but , as if guessing her intention , he tightened his grip , pulling her a centimetre — no , more — towards him . |
| 9 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 10 | I made you live again and I wanted to know there was more than mere excitement for you . ’ |
| 11 | His boots scuffed the gravel briefly and she wanted to apologise , then he swung round . |
| 12 | and the one 's too late I like that one too and I wanted to buy it as |