Example sentences of "that [pers pn] wanted " in BNC.

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1 I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice .
2 In fact I found Shakespeare very difficult to get on with and was n't at all sure that I wanted to .
3 It was a conscious choice that I wanted to go into the company , but I did n't have a clear view as to what particular part of the business I was interested in .
4 ‘ I told him that I wanted £5,000 from him .
5 I felt I had music inside me that I wanted people to hear .
6 The first evidence of Cat 's ‘ I felt I had music inside me that I wanted people to hear .
7 A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true .
8 The message got round and it got round Haddon Hall like wildfire that I wanted David Bowie to be a cabaret star .
9 I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too .
10 Often , a victim of his paralysing shyness , he walked along the far side of the Thames , ‘ sometimes in such wretchedness that I wanted to drown myself .
11 I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’
12 Even now , I 'm not sure what it was that I wanted to say , and talking to my new friend is the only way I am learning .
13 Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over .
14 Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over .
15 The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse .
16 The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse .
17 I gobbled it up and pointed that I wanted another .
18 Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus Christ — whoever He was .
19 I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about .
20 ‘ I think I said to you earlier — I did , did n't I — sometimes I forget what I 've said — that I wanted you to look after her . ’
21 When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together .
22 That was still the kind of work that I wanted to do , and if I thought very much a comprehensive schools it was in a spirit of mild disquiet .
23 . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did .
24 When I heard about Elsie 's foot I decided that I wanted to write about her to explore how she coped with her disability .
25 I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this .
26 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 .
27 Now I felt that I wanted nothing else in the world but to be allowed to read this dismal grammar all winter .
28 It seemed to me then that I wanted everything , a whole new world , but could define no part of it .
29 Not that I wanted to play chess nor even to frighten the good citizens of Budapest with a glimpse of my bare cadaver — my bathing trunks now also fell off me — but rather that the idea of a character — perhaps fleeing from something or someone — standing in those steaming baths moving queens and pawns , fitted perfectly into the outline I had .
30 I knew that I wanted neither , but was n't sure that I had the strength or conviction to refuse them should they be prescribed .
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