Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] i wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of funny looks later and I realised I also had to head off the perception that I wanted to hire a sex cave for outré rumpy pumpy with a slew of bimbo victims . |
| 2 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The next point that I wanted to turn to is who the duty of care is owed owed to , er as I understand it the present law is quite clear . |
| 6 | The message Chairman an and er having an idea of , of your second item of urgent business erm it , this perhaps provides the link the important er point that I wanted to emphasise was that the issue of rainfall , the defect on erm the drainage of an area and er water catchment areas and so on , drainage basins is a matter which can only be dealt with at the strategic level and it is therefore of considerable concern to me in view of local government and the questions that is raising about the future of strategic planning could actually make this coordination much more difficult in the future , unless we take steps now to protect the er strategic planning , whatever form local government takes strategic planning itself also needs a degree of |
| 7 | Well the point that I wanted to get off drugs was , my family not wanting any more to do with me , erm , they 'd shut the door on me . |
| 8 | Yes the point that I wanted to raise on the table we have resolved . |
| 9 | Er quite fortuitously the question thrown out by the senior inspector anticipates the point that I wanted to make that that surely it 's the structure plan that sets the strategic context and it and it 's wholly appropriate for local plans to put local interpretation on that . |
| 10 | I considered simply passing it forward , but some idiot would probably open it and read it out to the whole class , or else it would get intercepted by Mrs Burton who was the last person that I wanted to read it . |
| 11 | It was to prevent that happening that I wanted to act , in homage to Modigliani and to my father , and out of a sense of duty to their memory . |
| 12 | ‘ I was in such shock that I wanted to phone round Julie 's friends but she had taken her contacts book with her and I was in a panic . |
| 13 | This is the example that I wanted to quote in erm , in er , answer to er , the question you asked me earlier . |
| 14 | Seeing him kissing you , I felt such a murderous rage that I wanted to storm in and beat him to a pulp . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 17 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 18 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach . |
| 21 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |