Example sentences of "say [pers pn] wanted a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles had said he wanted a practical farmer on the council who knew something about estate management , and John Higgs was the man found for the job . |
| 2 | Leo had never said he wanted a permanent arrangement , yet if he was going to marry someone else why get involved with her ? |
| 3 | The overwhelming majority of these , the best qualified young people in the country , said they wanted a protected life in a big corporation , a home in the suburbs and a family of five or six children . |
| 4 | Businessmen meeting at the Institute of Directors ' annual convention this week said they wanted a sustained , long-lasting recovery , rather than a repeat of boom-bust . |
| 5 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 6 | and I should warn you that once I was asked to go to a , a series of lectures in a certain cathedral on the seven deadly sins , because the Canon who invited me said he wanted a married man who was good on lust ! |
| 7 | The Labour leader accused Major , who said he wanted a classless society , of instead building ‘ a heartless society ruled by a Government devoid of any sense of responsibility for its people . ’ |