Example sentences of "said he want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both went to bed but Stephen was restless and said he wanted to sleep on the couch . |
| 2 | In the autumn of 1972 , Michael came back and said he wanted to do it , so we took it from there . ’ |
| 3 | When his three-year-old son saw the rods he started crying and said he wanted to go fishing , and was still upset the next morning . |
| 4 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 5 | Oliver said he wanted to go to nursery today because I got some yellow cards you know they 're Daffy Duck |
| 6 | Owen said he wanted to go , and I said do n't go , come over and hassle , so I and run off . |
| 7 | He said he wanted to devote his time to developing ‘ tool kits for the elderly ’ . |
| 8 | Years ago a man walked in to the paper and said he wanted to confess to a murder — and to prove it , he had sawn-off sections of the body with him in a carrier bag . ’ |
| 9 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 10 | He said he wanted to explain something to Beryl but I 've no idea what . |
| 11 | The sergeant produced his warrant card and said he wanted to ask some questions . |
| 12 | If Richardson said he wanted to employ him , Albie would not resist . |
| 13 | He said he wanted to toast a bridesmaid but there were n't any around so he was jolly well going to toast Gill instead . |
| 14 | He said he wanted to call the Ambassador . ’ |
| 15 | Madame behind the counter was not in the least fazed when he said he wanted to call England . |
| 16 | He said he wanted to attend school and had a particular liking for technical subjects . |
| 17 | He said he wanted to eliminate the ‘ schlechtes polnisches zeug ’ , the bad Polish stuff , and he claimed that the Poles had brought this upon themselves by refusing to accept the new Prussian authority with good grace . |
| 18 | A source at the meeting did not deny that Mr Havel 's candidacy was discussed , while Father Vaclav Maly , a leading Forum activist , said he wanted to see Mr Havel as head of state . |
| 19 | ‘ He arrived half an hour ago and said he wanted to see you urgently . |
| 20 | While welcoming moves to allow more Soviet Jews to emigrate , Bush said he wanted to see " unfettered emigration " . |
| 21 | Last May he said he wanted to see the TV soap opera banned because ‘ children learn nothing from these junk programmes which dull their senses making teachers ’ jobs even harder . ’ |
| 22 | Oftel 's director general , Bill Wigglesworth , said he wanted to see ‘ an end to the uncertainty ’ about prices , and BT 's shares later dipped 5p to 398p. — PA |
| 23 | ‘ Just said he wanted to report a blue Fiat abandoned on the road to Cannara , near the scene of the murder . ’ |
| 24 | A guy I ai n't worked for before said he wanted to use someone from up here to call on a man in Brighton and advise him to lay off some property . |
| 25 | Later he said he wanted to sell everything . |
| 26 | I want to see , I 'm I mean I saw Mr and erm Mr nodding when Martin said he wanted to give these figures to the Chief Exec and ask him to er get it sorted out . |
| 27 | A couple of years later I was telephoned by a BBC producer called Ron Webster , who said he wanted to talk to me about Mountbatten 's obituary programme . |
| 28 | Well , on Thursday afternoon , Maurice was phoned at the office by a man with a foreign accent who said he wanted to talk to him about Sam . |
| 29 | But he said , he said he wanted to talk to me , to get to know me . |
| 30 | He went on to said he wanted to talk about the hunting debate , erm , it occurred to me to wonder why they could n't find anyone in Stonygate in favour of hunting , I mean perhaps there are n't any people in Stonygate in favour of hunting . |