Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 2 | Thomas Cook was one of the first entrepreneurs to see the huge possibilities of rail travel and in 1844 , after the success of his early excursions , he pronounced that he wanted ‘ railways for the millions ’ . |
| 3 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 4 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 5 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 6 | He found that he wanted the sort of things girls , his wife even , demanded from him — chat , company , sharing . |
| 7 | Despite herself , she found that she wanted to comfort the old woman . |
| 8 | On the way home , she found that she wanted to cry again and could not think of a possible reason why she should . |
| 9 | The prosecution tried to rebutt this defence by offerring evidence of a statement made by the defendant to the police in which he inferred that he wanted to get rid of the person he attacked . |
| 10 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 11 | He realized that she wanted to believe him . |
| 12 | And er I had asked there was anything you know , they would be interested in and they all agreed that they wanted to start with banking , and wha , see what Sandra had done last er ta last year with a group that they thought was very good getting them to be aware |
| 13 | Before we married , my husband and I agreed that we wanted children . |
| 14 | That day , she only realised that nobody wants their special enemy , chosen with care and attacked with force , to renounce the role and throw down arms and instead bare their breasts for an embrace . |
| 15 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 16 | At the same time , Kabi Pharmacia announced that it wanted to form a strategic alliance with Zambon , the Italian pharmaceutical group . |
| 17 | In November 1989 the government announced that it wanted gradually to stop all exports of logs , ostensibly to help domestic enterprises , and it was announced on March 9 , 1990 , that the government would impose levies and quotas on some sawn timber and veneer exports , starting on June 1 . |
| 18 | On June 6 the government announced that it wanted to join the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and that it would sign the 1975 Helsinki Final Act . |
| 19 | And when his wife Jane announced that she wanted a divorce , 48-year-old Mr Elton finally cracked . |
| 20 | She then announced that she wanted some cream cakes . |
| 21 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 22 | He announced that he wanted to make a biopic of North , with Mel Gibson or Treat Williams in the title role . |
| 23 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 24 | But twelve months after they had married with such discretion , Lovat announced that he wanted to return home . |
| 25 | Reluctantly she admitted that she wanted to see him all the time . |
| 26 | The idea that it was a foreign plot seems to be the least likely of the possibilities , because although Stalin believed that they wanted to crush Russia I do n't see how killing Kirov this would help a foreign power in any way to crush Stalin 's Russia . |
| 27 | He added that he wanted to avoid " the alarming imbalance in some schemes [ a reference to the German method — see above ] between what is collected and the ability to reprocess it " . |
| 28 | She was transferring her anxieties to him and now that she recognised that she wanted to do something about it . |
| 29 | She recognised that he wanted her to forget what had happened , but that it also leapt vividly before his eyes and had a hold on him too . |
| 30 | It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing . |