Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a dose of the drug whenever I wanted to forget my old , quiet , serious self for a time . |
| 2 | It 's a shameful fact , but here it is : if I were squashed under a bus tomorrow , my relations would have to hold a seance to find out how I wanted to settle my affairs . |
| 3 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
| 4 | That was when I wanted to keep whatever scandal there was , in the family . |
| 5 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 6 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 7 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 8 | Being mainly softwood around the outside , with no pressure applied , I allowed the cutter to dictate where I wanted to go . |
| 9 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 10 | He had the northern half of the sheet open , and it made me feel worse , for it showed the estuary , Foulness Island , and the junction of the Crouch with the River Roach — just the area where I wanted to potter in Joanna . |
| 11 | Cos I knew I 'd got enough to give you back , that 's why I wanted to borrow it |
| 12 | That was partly why I wanted to see you . ’ |
| 13 | That 's why I wanted to go up West tonight . |
| 14 | So I knew exactly why I wanted to conduct it . |
| 15 | Hugh Ritchie , the Departmental Officer one rank above Mr S — , a kind and gentlemanly character with whom I always had rapport , sent for me and asked why I wanted to leave . |
| 16 | She did not understand why I wanted to leave her . |
| 17 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 18 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 19 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |
| 20 | That 's why I wanted to haul you in — I thought we could have a brainstorming session together . ’ |
| 21 | That 's why I wanted to cover it with . |
| 22 | ‘ That was why I wanted to speak to you — to find out , if during your time together , she 'd managed to corrupt you . ’ |
| 23 | Nellie rounded on me angrily and asked me why I wanted to know . |
| 24 | tell me , did n't even ask me why I wanted to know . |
| 25 | I guess that was just another reason why I wanted to get away . ’ |
| 26 | That 's why I wanted to make sure that you did n't say anything about it to Dawlish . ’ |
| 27 | That 's why I wanted to start them so I gave them back to him . |
| 28 | But I knew I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 29 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 30 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |