Example sentences of "he wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of him wanted to take lessons from people of more decided character . |
| 2 | No surprise that every single person who met him wanted to turn that meeting into an incident , an anecdote , an event . |
| 3 | The toisech among the men with him wanted to talk , and he was sharp with him , because he had to think . |
| 4 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 5 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 6 | Any deformity should be improved - - such as ‘ that disgusting row of ash trees extending from Friar Crag over Strands Hagg ’ which he wanted to turn into three irregular groups . |
| 7 | Ruth could almost have believed that he wanted to turn around and go back home . |
| 8 | He wanted to turn back to reassure him in a more plausible way . |
| 9 | He was already in so far he could not find his depth , and he wanted to turn and strike back for the shore , but , like an unpractised swimmer , found that the distance he had come was too great for him to return . |
| 10 | He wanted to turn the lamp up , to see the man 's eyes better . |
| 11 | He wanted to turn round but dared not do so . |
| 12 | He wanted to turn the premises into flats . |
| 13 | On the one side was the pain and a great big black hole into which he wanted to sink — it was so restful down there — and on the other there were the surgeon , the nurses and his wife Marlene talking to him constantly , trying to get him to react , to fight back . |
| 14 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 15 | He told some 600,000 people at a mass that he wanted to visit China , where millions of Catholics are believed to belong to an underground Church . |
| 16 | Mr Evans , of Inverurie , near Aberdeen , said that Mr Browning telephoned him from South Wales on the evening of 18 June last year to say he wanted to visit . |
| 17 | He wanted to visit Collet 's , the International bookshop . |
| 18 | His card message system gave him the freedom to go out alone and hail a taxi , showing the driver the appropriate card for the place he wanted to visit . |
| 19 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 20 | He told Mr Major he will leave once the Maastricht Treaty is ratified by Parliament , adding that he wanted to spend more time with his family and pursue his interests in the art world . |
| 21 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 22 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 23 | Before Seb could decide whether he wanted to spend the evening in Melody 's company she was following close behind the gang-boss . |
| 24 | He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections . |
| 25 | He wanted to examine the Collector 's right eye which had become red and rather swollen . |
| 26 | Having properties in Marston and Syston , they bought the manor in 1716 , when Sir George Markham decided that he wanted to move and bought an estate in Essex . |
| 27 | There is an element of bravado here — having conquered the academic and " literary " worlds , he wanted to move on — but it suggests also the extraordinary and self-conscious determination with which he worked . |
| 28 | He wanted to move , to step back , but nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 29 | But there might come a time , there was no denying it , when he might have had enough , and then if he wanted to move it would have to be up . |
| 30 | In August 1861 he made clear that he wanted to move beyond the problem of the western provinces to the problem of priests in general . |