Example sentences of "that i wanted [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would tell them that I wanted to record their accents for a research project . |
| 2 | I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby . |
| 3 | I explained that I wanted to see her father on a matter of business , but that his office had been unable to tell me where he was , and that I could get no reply by telephoning his home . |
| 4 | So that I wanted to defend him from the beginning . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 7 | that I wanted to do something about safety or first aid and that 's it . |
| 8 | I assured her that I would definitely not change my mind and that I was sure that I wanted to do it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 11 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 12 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was so disgusted with myself that I wanted to make myself suffer even more when I did — as I knew I would — break my word . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |