Example sentences of "wanted [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally there 's lots of information in the backpackers ’ and motor camps , and the boys were pretty quick to suss out where they wanted to go and what to do there . |
| 2 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 3 | Erm she was in India and I wanted to go and she said a Hindi course at A T R in Zurich . |
| 4 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |
| 5 | ‘ The Americans asked us if we wanted to come and we said , S'pose so , ’ grinds the aptly named bass player Martin Blunt , unravelling his gnarled fingers from their intertwined tense bundle . |
| 6 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 7 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 8 | She wanted to play and she wanted to colour and oh oh |
| 9 | She wanted to pee and she walked round the house in search of a bush . |
| 10 | Today she had something of her own that she wanted to do and she felt trapped . |
| 11 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 12 | She wanted to cry and she imagined the tears flowing down her cheeks and dripping on to her jersey and how he 'd probably say that she should go somewhere else to cry . |
| 13 | And then we go back to the point which Mr Cunnane wanted to raise and they 've had their lunchtime discussions , see whether you 've come to a some form of agreement or resolution on that . |
| 14 | Yes and then er I wanted to change and I wanted to do private nursing |
| 15 | He wanted to eat and he did n't give a damn two ways anyhow . |
| 16 | She knew what she wanted to learn and she knew where it was ; she just had to shovel it all into her head . |
| 17 | The navigator , who I wanted to exchange and who remained with Middleton in his very last moments , his body was never found . |
| 18 | And er she erm she said , I know what you wanted to say and I appreciate that you find it difficult to put it into words |