Example sentences of "that i wanted [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 2 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 3 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 4 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |
| 5 | Erm the other one , that I wanted to bring up in this , the reason I suppose , the second one to remember , is the idea of satire . |
| 6 | This is the example that I wanted to quote in erm , in er , answer to er , the question you asked me earlier . |
| 7 | Seeing him kissing you , I felt such a murderous rage that I wanted to storm in and beat him to a pulp . |
| 8 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 9 | At that time I believed that the United Kingdom would be facing severe economic problems in the future , and I decided that I wanted to work somewhere where I could serve the community , and make a contribution to the resolution of those problems . |
| 10 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 11 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 12 | " It was n't dull , " said Clara , " there is nothing , nothing that I wanted to hear more . |