Example sentences of "that he wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 2 | That same week he told Maggie out of the blue that he wanted to see her alone . |
| 3 | Chamberlain was the chairman of the JAC , established by the Board of Trade , but he made it clear that he wanted to see ‘ a separate department of the city 's government , in which the education authority and the Ministry of Labour would cooperate in order to cover all sides of juvenile welfare ’ . |
| 4 | He told a packed meeting that he was opposed to discrimination against lesbians and gay men , and , further , that he wanted to see homosexuality regarded as being equally as valid as heterosexuality . |
| 5 | He said nothing , just that he wanted to see Duncan in the hall . |
| 6 | The president , said Mr Rubin , believed that a ‘ two-way process ’ was necessary to expand trade , and that he wanted to see ‘ measurable progress ’ on the removal of formal or informal impediments to trade . |
| 7 | After the Stanleys ' ambivalent behaviour in 1469–71 Edward may have seen his brother 's presence in the region as a useful counterbalance , but it is unlikely that he wanted to see the Stanleys totally eclipsed . |
| 8 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 9 | There would be no reason for the trunk to be disturbed , and if Carson decided that he wanted to see the other diaries it would be a simple matter to get hold of them . |
| 10 | Salaquin Mandru sent word that he wanted to see his new Ixmaritian vibrancer a week or so after Lucien had recovered from his fever . |
| 11 | He told a surprised Buckingham , who greeted them in the hallway , that he wanted to see Sir Richard and Lady Isabella and other members of the household in the hall immediately . |
| 12 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 13 | Mr. Bickerstaffe said that he wanted to see that bill increased . |
| 14 | This morning , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said that he wanted to see more policemen on the beat , yet when he was a member of the last Labour Cabinet he cut the number of policemen and left the police force under strength . |
| 15 | After the Stanleys ' ambivalent behaviour in 1469–71 Edward may have seen his brother 's presence in the region as a useful counterbalance , but it is unlikely that he wanted to see the Stanleys totally eclipsed . |
| 16 | It 's just that he wanted to see Jenny in front of everyone else . |
| 17 | Peter Thompson now explained that he wanted to go beyond the concept of a management buy-out and to involve all the staff who wanted to buy shares . |
| 18 | Zak said Nell was along with the passengers in the reception area , and that he wanted to go and see how things were shaping . |
| 19 | " There 's no such thing as a work-line , " I said , irritable through misery that he wanted to go . |
| 20 | Colin told Mrs Medlock and the doctor that he wanted to go out in his wheelchair . |
| 21 | ‘ All he told us was that he wanted to go up to Luxor . |
| 22 | She had aroused him so much that he wanted to take her here and now , on the ground . |
| 23 | He had left her in no doubt that he wanted to take her to bed . |
| 24 | De Gaulle meant , as you would realise , that he wanted to take her out of earshot and have a whisper . |
| 25 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 26 | The old man 's nervous intensity , that jerking from one place to another , one subject to another , his jaunty walk , the gnomic answers and mystifications , the weird flinging-up of his arms when I left — all his mannerisms suggested , were calculated to suggest , that he wanted to seem younger and more vital than he was . |
| 27 | All he could think of was that he wanted to sneeze . |
| 28 | Strangers , I mean , that he wanted to talk to alone ? ’ |
| 29 | They said that he wanted to talk to Joan . |
| 30 | Especially on the second night , I had the feeling that he wanted to talk , and what made it the more interesting was the variety of his experiences and the mature way in which he alluded to them . |