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 . |