Example sentences of "he [verb] that [pers pn] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he realised that she wanted nothing more to do with him ? |
| 2 | He realized that she wanted to believe him . |
| 3 | He announced that he wanted to make a biopic of North , with Mel Gibson or Treat Williams in the title role . |
| 4 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 5 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |
| 6 | The prosecution tried to rebutt this defence by offerring evidence of a statement made by the defendant to the police in which he inferred that he wanted to get rid of the person he attacked . |
| 7 | He found that he wanted the sort of things girls , his wife even , demanded from him — chat , company , sharing . |
| 8 | Thomas Cook was one of the first entrepreneurs to see the huge possibilities of rail travel and in 1844 , after the success of his early excursions , he pronounced that he wanted ‘ railways for the millions ’ . |
| 9 | He says that they want to take away his living . |
| 10 | He says that they want to take away his living . |
| 11 | He says that he wants a woman who wo n't mind a romantic involvement . |
| 12 | ED BICKNELL is manager of Dire Straits who he says that he wanted to represent within five minutes of seeing them live . |
| 13 | James 's book rather rewrites history when he says that he wanted Niki to think he 'd been psyched out . |
| 14 | He added that he wanted to avoid " the alarming imbalance in some schemes [ a reference to the German method — see above ] between what is collected and the ability to reprocess it " . |
| 15 | Not by even one sign had he shown that he wanted her to stay in any capacity at all . |
| 16 | He declared that he wanted opposition party members to join the new Cabinet . |
| 17 | Ludens thought , she 's a puritan ; and he felt a sympathy with her and would have tarried , as he sensed that she wanted to talk to him . |
| 18 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
| 19 | From this , he decided that he wanted to study chemistry formally and , in 1903 , went to Manchester University , where the head of chemistry was William Henry Perkin jr , whose father had discovered mauveine , the earliest synthetic dye . |
| 20 | He knew that she wanted to help Sir Henry , so he beat her and tied her up . |
| 21 | He insisted that he wanted to return to the church to sample some more of the atmosphere : commune with the spirit of the Levellers — that sort of nonsense . |
| 22 | At seventeen , he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea . |
| 23 | Only when he was at last on his way , did he realise that he wanted a woman . |
| 24 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ she said softly , ‘ he said that you want to take over Swift Investments , disinherit him , marry the perfect wife and found a dynasty . ’ |
| 26 | His parents fully understood his difficulties and raised no objections when he said that he wanted to live in the poorest part of South-East London for a year , to study conditions and work in a lay capacity amongst the people . |
| 27 | ‘ He said that he wanted to sell this house , but he would buy a smaller one for mother and me . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , he said that he wanted to do something useful with his life , seeing that it had been given back to him when he had n't expected it . |
| 29 | He said that he wanted to inspect the rocks on the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ During our negotiations , he said that he wanted to get a message across to the media . |