Example sentences of "do what [pers pn] wanted [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no doubt very wicked of them , but I bear them no animosity at all : I had done what I wanted to do , which was to obtain a glimpse of the Caucasus from the most easternly town of any size in Turkey . |
| 2 | erm , I I let the person do what they wanted to do and not what I wanted to do I just went along with what they said |
| 3 | if you did n't do what they wanted to do they did , they did you in , they sent you to Belsen |
| 4 | So Kennedy could n't act precipitantly , he could n't simply do what he wanted to do which was to get rid of Castro , because if he 'd done that then his policy objectives in other parts of the world would be in jeopardy . |
| 5 | So Kennedy could n't act precipitantly , he could n't simply do what he wanted to do which was to get rid of Castro , because if he 'd done that then his policy objectives in other parts of the world would be in jeopardy . |
| 6 | Right at the beginning someone said they were enjoying life at the moment because they were able to do what they wanted to do in Scotland . |
| 7 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 8 | If I am bored then I have not found the way to do what I wanted to do . |
| 9 | I was always allowed to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 10 | I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 11 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 12 | They were not tricked into doing what they would not otherwise have done , they were tricked into doing what they wanted to do in that place and before witnesses and devices who can now speak of what happened . |
| 13 | I got used to doing what I wanted to do . |
| 14 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 15 | Sure , he would pause and argue , then continue doing what he wanted to do . |
| 16 | Ken seemed happy ; happy with his wife , with his children , and now with his work ; not rich , but doing what he wanted to do . |
| 17 | She says he was doing what he wanted to do . |
| 18 | The girl was doing what she wanted to do . |
| 19 | She was a law unto herself and did what she wanted to do . |
| 20 | ‘ You simply did what you wanted to do with no thought or care as to how I should feel . ’ |
| 21 | Like a baby , he did what he wanted to do . ’ |
| 22 | He admired her enormously and she did what he wanted to do — went into the really serious theatre while he stayed the same . ’ |
| 23 | The lucky part for me was that I was able to go from school and do what I wanted to do . |
| 24 | Whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do . |
| 25 | They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months . |
| 26 | If I could go out to work and leave the child and and do what I wanted to do , I 'd be quite happy with that . |