Example sentences of "that [pers pn] wanted " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | I considered simply passing it forward , but some idiot would probably open it and read it out to the whole class , or else it would get intercepted by Mrs Burton who was the last person that I wanted to read it . |
| 36 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 37 | I knew the sound that I wanted , in my head , and I just happened to find this old AC30 which belonged to a friend of mine . |
| 38 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 39 | ‘ I decided there and then that I wanted nothing more to do with him , ’ she says . |
| 40 | ‘ I was in such shock that I wanted to phone round Julie 's friends but she had taken her contacts book with her and I was in a panic . |
| 41 | Knowing that I wanted to speak to the bedu woman to learn more of her life , the Sheikha signalled me to stay while they moved out of the dining room , pulling their veils over their masks . |
| 42 | Once I had created the spray shape that I wanted , I tied the red ribbon that had accompanied the bouquet into a small flat bow , to minimise its lumpiness , and added it to the design . |
| 43 | When you struck me last night I — I felt only that I wanted you . |
| 44 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 45 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 46 | ‘ At it 's worst I just felt that I could n't go anywhere that I wanted to . |
| 47 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 48 | ‘ I told the people around me that I wanted to quit , so they flew me back home to see a doctor . |
| 49 | I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby . |
| 50 | It left me free to do all kinds of other things that I wanted to do . |
| 51 | ‘ There was something I remembered that I wanted to look at , and I thought it would be an interesting place to spend my leave . |
| 52 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 53 | It was to prevent that happening that I wanted to act , in homage to Modigliani and to my father , and out of a sense of duty to their memory . |
| 54 | I underpainted some details in red that I wanted to see through it . |
| 55 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 56 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 57 | I was lowered from the stance to lie amongst the boulders and heather whingeing at my discomfort and misfortune as the crag was smothered by a swarm of conscientious drones climbing routes that I wanted to do . |
| 58 | And anyway , I was so overwhelmed by her mother , who was so sweet to me , that I wanted to be her friend . |
| 59 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 60 | A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims . |