Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] wanted [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 2 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 3 | I just wanted to say that question , so , who discovered Uranus in seventeen eighty one ? |
| 4 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 5 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 6 | I just wanted to compete any time , anywhere . |
| 7 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 8 | But I never wanted to see that gasoline engine washer on this hardstand again with the gas trucks parked around it . |
| 9 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 10 | So I think her mother 's gon na be in for a bit of a shock because they all think that they 're gon na get married so quick , I think she just wanted to get that ring on her finger so she can reap the ackers and I think she 's gon na do a runner . |
| 11 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 12 | If he really wanted to keep this room a secret , having no window onto the outside would be the best way , surely ? ’ |
| 13 | If Craig Charleston said that he never wanted to see another Spitfire project , I would not be surprised , I 'll wager that he does though ! |