Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] wanted " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only possible answers are that they wanted to ensure that Lothar would not evade the battle , and that the battle would be decisive . |
| 2 | ‘ For the railway monopolies , it has always been that they wanted the data network modernised . |
| 3 | Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire . |
| 4 | The main criticism seems to be that he wanted to change things , forms of service and such like . |
| 5 | yeah , but she they did n't get the one 's that , she could n't get the one 's that she wanted cos they did n't have enough |
| 6 | What is evident from the women studied is that they wanted and needed paid work for economic , social , psychological and personal reasons . |
| 7 | The second reason is that I wanted to educate the carp into finding bait in the area before I alter the character of the swim in any way . |
| 8 | One explanation is that he wanted to keep open an option should the pound run into fresh trouble , as well it may . |
| 9 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |
| 10 | Whether he attended the Academy or not , what is certain is that he wanted to live with a practising painter as a working apprentice . |
| 11 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 12 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 13 | One would think , one of the things that young people decide was that they wanted facilities in their area . |
| 14 | This regular weekly contact , together with the organised group visits , meant that the students approached teaching practice knowing that they could organise a lesson in terms of defining in advance what it was that they wanted the children to learn how to do ; and then , by working backwards , sort out their materials , activities and procedures . |
| 15 | So they would actually do the shopping for the material , and then they would go away and look at pattern books and decide what sort of patterns they wanted , what sort of dress it was that they wanted to make . |
| 16 | The impression was that we wanted sponsors cash even if it detracted from development funds , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 17 | I was pregnant with Nicola and it was that we wanted to change the car , what did we have , a Metropole at the |
| 18 | The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love . |
| 19 | ‘ She was smashed out of her brains , Fergus , and about the only thing she remembered was that she wanted to get your trousers off . |
| 20 | ‘ The main conflict they always had was that she wanted to work more and he would not allow her , ’ according to Jane . |
| 21 | All she knew was that she wanted him out of her flat — and out of her life — before he managed to do any more harm . |
| 22 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 23 | What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being . |
| 24 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 25 | But the true reason was that he wanted to prevent me from writing any more good poems about them . ) |
| 26 | The next thing was that he wanted her to hold the bulge . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 28 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 29 | ‘ All he told us was that he wanted to go up to Luxor . |
| 30 | The reason that Jesus talked with this woman was that he wanted to save her . |