Example sentences of "i [adv] wanted [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wanted you to be sure that she 's dangerous to us . |
| 2 | Yeah I 'm writing a letter to mothers I 'm writing a letter to mum and I just wanted it to be . |
| 3 | ‘ I just wanted us to be married as soon as possible . |
| 4 | O K , I just wanted us to , to do that erm , because erm , one of the things that I suspect when you 're getting down to doing your plan tomorrow , is that with the best will in the world , even though I say but this is for sales course , one of things you will want objectively to look at is either your revenue or your trading base or something , er , I just wanted to carry that through . |
| 5 | It 's funny , I never really did like him and Ken Pitt thought I always wanted them to be together . |
| 6 | ‘ I really wanted us to be happy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I originally wanted it to be ‘ Gor ra Band ’ , but nobody in the USA understood ! |
| 8 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |