Example sentences of "he wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ruth could almost have believed that he wanted to turn around and go back home . |
| 5 | He wanted to turn back to reassure him in a more plausible way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wanted to turn the lamp up , to see the man 's eyes better . |
| 8 | He wanted to turn round but dared not do so . |
| 9 | He wanted to turn the premises into flats . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He wanted to visit Collet 's , the International bookshop . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Before Seb could decide whether he wanted to spend the evening in Melody 's company she was following close behind the gang-boss . |
| 21 | He explained his resignation on the grounds that he wanted to spend more time preparing his candidacy for forthcoming presidential elections . |
| 22 | He wanted to examine the Collector 's right eye which had become red and rather swollen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He wanted to move , to step back , but nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 29 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 30 | That is admitted it , the defendants also erm that Mr had told them that he , the bank had approved the loan facilities an and that he wanted to move quickly to er exchange of contracts . |