Example sentences of "[vb past] if [pron] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would put her elbows on the table , she would be allowed wine , she would read a book while she ate if she wanted to . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |
| 3 | The day before we finished mixing ‘ UF Orb ’ , Robert Fripp phoned and asked if we wanted any guitaring on the album … ’ |
| 4 | He asked if we wanted to watch him feed the birds . |
| 5 | So I asked if we wanted anything ? |
| 6 | Like a scene from a pantomime , he asked if they wanted a single currency and to have other countries interfering in Britain 's immigration controls . |
| 7 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 8 | Once , the doorkeeper popped his head out and asked if they wanted to hand in autograph books . |
| 9 | He stopped when he saw them and asked if they wanted to come with him . |
| 10 | So I asked if they wanted anything and she said a bed at the cottage hospital |
| 11 | I asked if he wanted a drink . |
| 12 | After a moment 's pause , Julia asked if he wanted her to go to the telegraph office for him . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Wright asked if I wanted a lift home , then she went to that house , the one in the photograph . ’ |
| 14 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 15 | When I said she did n't , he rang for his chauffeur and told me he was going to see her and asked if I wanted to go with him . |
| 16 | Eventually I went along to the British Association of Psychotherapists , where I was assessed and asked if I wanted to see a male or a female therapist . |
| 17 | My social worker who gave me advice asked if I wanted adoption or fostering , and I said fostering ( it was a white family ) . |
| 18 | The interest of the BBC 's Heart of the Matter was triggered by Newsnight and that , in turn , caught the attention of a researcher on Wogan , Mandy Nixon , who asked if I wanted to appear on the programme . |
| 19 | Mandeville still sulked in the hall whilst the old beldames in Southgate 's chamber cackled with laughter and asked if I wanted them to wash me ? |
| 20 | ‘ Only because I could n't work out how you were doing it , ’ I said , and she laughed some more and asked if I wanted to join her friends . |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't understand why the front door would not open and this young fellow appeared and asked if I wanted any help . |
| 22 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 23 | Plummer called through and asked if she wanted a drink . |
| 24 | It was to this work that most writers of manuals on the exercise of princely authority turned if they wanted to learn how war should be fought . |
| 25 | So what happened if you wanted to pop to the loo ? |
| 26 | What happened if you wanted to pop to the loo ? |
| 27 | er , I have n't opened the packet yet , I just thought if you wanted to try one , you stick them on a radiator or you know |
| 28 | The estate agent said if we wanted to see it , we 'd have to get the key from them . ’ |
| 29 | In fact , he said if I wanted to bring along some mates , he 'd get us all in free . |
| 30 | She smiled at this and said if I wanted a change I could knit up navy blue wool for the Royal Navy , which I did . |