Example sentences of "the [noun pl] that [pron] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it it varied really w we saw our role in general as being to support and and facilitate the activities that they wanted to get involved |
| 2 | At the beginning of each week she read through the Radio Times and TV Times and ringed the programmes that she wanted to see . |
| 3 | It could be extended to look even longer , and presented with the words that we wanted to give you ‘ a small gift ’ or a gift ‘ big enough for two ’ . |
| 4 | Statutory advisers from the conservation bodies all gave us a list of the areas that they wanted included and , for the most part , we followed those lists in so far as they agreed with one another . |
| 5 | In 1977 , he bought passage from the USSR by ‘ donating ’ to the Tretyakov all the paintings from the collections that they wanted ; the remaining ones he took with him to Greece and retirement . |
| 6 | I had n't bought any tea and there was an Alan Freeman radio programme on the story of the Kinks that I wanted to listen to . |
| 7 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 8 | The opposite was true in his perception and so it was necessary to work with this widower helping him say out loud the things that he wanted to say to his wife — all the uncomplimentary and difficult things — and then , having done that , to begin grieving for the lost relationship . |
| 9 | Then I got the things that I wanted from the ship . |
| 10 | These were obviously the pages that she wanted . |
| 11 | ‘ In the beginning , Freddie did n't have all the powers that he wanted to have as a vocalist ; he worked to achieve those and improved as he worked over the years . |
| 12 | I appreciate the courtesy of the hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) in giving notice of the details that he wanted to raise . |
| 13 | Having received three quotes from three different companies , I wanted the company chosen to agree that they would n't exceed a certain price and they have confirmed that the mower we 've chosen will not exceed eighteen thousand six hundred and sixty eight pounds and this is for everything , this is the mower including the new cab erm and all the fittings that we wanted included on mower . |
| 14 | Most of the files that I wanted to see were either closed for 75 years or were ‘ retained by the department ’ , which effectively closes them forever . |
| 15 | Right , so you recognised early on , that you would have to make a move for some of the stances that you wanted . |
| 16 | no , but I took the bits that I wanted , and my bits and I 'll try and get on that |
| 17 | And what about the points that they wanted to make ? |
| 18 | Focusing in on social services , the points that I wanted to make to start er , to you were first of all the complexity of the community care situation , and you have a separate paper on that which Mr will be going through you , going through with you in detail . |
| 19 | However , Operation Granby proved that it is possible to go out onto the charter market for ships and find ships from many different nations to perform the tasks that we wanted of them . |
| 20 | Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted . |
| 21 | He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections . |