Example sentences of "and [pers pn] wanted [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth . |
| 2 | It was a big step to do it and I wanted to do it for Freddie . |
| 3 | ‘ You know what I want to do — and I wanted to do it for Jimi 's birthday in his anniversary year , but it did n't happen — I want to get everybody that ever recorded with him , anybody who played live with him , get them all at a big reunion and go out and play Hendrix all night long — every song that I know , every song that we could possibly do . |
| 4 | We got together to practise in 1985 , and I wanted to do it then , but I do n't really have a drive to do it now . |
| 5 | And I wanted to do it . |
| 6 | ‘ And I wanted to live it . |
| 7 | I only saw it once , and I wanted to see it again . |
| 8 | The tandem was forever breaking down and I wanted to fix it — so I took a course in cycle mechanics . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 11 | and the one 's too late I like that one too and I wanted to buy it as |
| 12 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
| 13 | This was the most overwhelming experience I had ever had and I wanted to understand it . |
| 14 | It had gone down hill before she took over and she wanted to turn it around again . ’ |
| 15 | He still held her hand against his pulse and she wanted to replace it with her mouth ; wanted to trail her fingers across his warm flesh , and the need to deny herself made her shake . |
| 16 | and we wanted to get it through Access , and the credit limit on Access was what was it a thousand ? |
| 17 | wanted to enjoy it and we wanted to share it with our friends . |
| 18 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 19 | As far as decent environments were concerned , they were the ‘ haves ’ and they wanted to keep it that way . |
| 20 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |
| 21 | The moment was exciting and he wanted to prolong it — to think of himself as capable of taking up such an offer — though he knew that in the end he would have to decline it . |
| 22 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 23 | The trouble is I mean if , if it did , it came up and he wanted to sell it would of it would obviously decrease the value . |
| 24 | and he wanted to own it . |
| 25 | It was something he did n't own , you see , and he wanted to buy it . |
| 26 | The threat had hung like a sword over his head for years and he wanted to confront it once and for all . |