Example sentences of "told [pers pn] that [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 2 | Shortly after Vitalis finished his course , a teacher in one of the schools told me that he wanted to get married in Church . |
| 3 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 4 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 5 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 6 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 7 | D' ya still wan na go with her cos she told me that she wants to go with ya ? |
| 8 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 9 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 10 | He told him that he wanted to stay with him . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him that I wanted £5,000 from him . |
| 12 | I planned to travel with him , but I told him that I wanted to go walking in the mountains alone . |
| 13 | She had a row with a young man named Nick Owens when they were all at the caelidhe one evening and he told her that he wanted her to be his girl and not go out with anyone else . |
| 14 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |
| 15 | I says , yeah , I told her yo told her that you wanted to see her . |
| 16 | So erm anyway she told her that she wanted Jay out . |
| 17 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |