Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [adv] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , what we initially wanted to do with all this was cover this whole area in , in greenery and have this as a sort of restaurant ta type . |
| 2 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 3 | Oh yes , very tasteful , sir , a very speaking likeness I 'm sure , and such tactility in the brushwork , but what we really wanted was a while-you-wait snapshot , a quid the strip of four down the machine . |
| 4 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 5 | If we stopped to check out what we really wanted to do , our internal voices might not be saying , ‘ Time to go out clubbing , ’ but , ‘ Out with the Ovaltine , on with the duvet and open the Ruth Rendell . ’ |
| 6 | What we really wanted here was a tape recorder . |