Example sentences of "[noun sg] for wanting " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gustave despised Du Camp for wanting the Légion d'honneur . |
| 2 | ‘ Out of my mind for wanting a traitorous little witch like you . |
| 3 | It was all his fault for wanting to show off about his swimming certificates . |
| 4 | But no sensible person enjoys rows and he is n't at fault for wanting a quiet life . |
| 5 | Anything which attempts to reverse this by bringing in unfamiliar work from the past which students have a positive motive for wanting to read must be a good thing , and strikes a blow against cultural amnesia . |
| 6 | He was still uncertain of Buckmaster 's motive for wanting to see him . |
| 7 | Joseph would be going back to the United States soon and would be beyond her gossip , but if Maurin convinced her of Joseph 's innocence , then how long would it be before she realized that he , too , had a strong financial motive for wanting the truth about the Durances kept secret ? |
| 8 | Her punishment for wanting that English Protestant , my father , who proposed to her by telegram . |
| 9 | The Founders had been suspicious of Pilger for wanting too much power long before Sutton was appointed . |
| 10 | The motivation for wanting a black child should be carefully examined . |
| 11 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 12 | ‘ You all had good reason for wanting Henry Phipps dead . ’ |
| 13 | She said : ‘ But he must have had some reason for wanting to talk to you . ’ |
| 14 | The Englishman sensed that the big personal build-up was a blind to hide Muldoon 's real reason for wanting him out of the country . |
| 15 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 16 | Koch has a special reason for wanting to beat Dennis Conner for the right to defend the America 's Cup . |
| 17 | It might be thought that those seeking detailed information about a particular school should show a special reason for wanting it , but there is no suggestion in any of the Regulations that availability of the information should be limited . |
| 18 | In the past the courts have construed statutory and common law rights to information restrictively and have either required an applicant to show a special reason for wanting the information or have denied access to a person with an ‘ indirect motive ’ such as a councillor helping a constituent in a complaint against the authority . |
| 19 | Another reason for wanting to retain the inclusion of a relatively poor inner-city area was that it is in such areas that the problems of service provision to dementia sufferers are often at their most acute . |
| 20 | As we saw in chapter 12 , there is another quite different intellectual reason for wanting to control for a third factor when assessing the relationship between two variables . |
| 21 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 22 | No one says that YOU have to , and if your main reason for wanting a close friendship is to be like everyone else then it wo n't be much of a friendship anyway ! |
| 23 | What is your real reason for wanting to go out with that person ? |
| 24 | She added : ‘ Caroline may have another reason for wanting to stay in the area . |
| 25 | Fred has given me no good reason for wanting us to break up our marriage like this . ’ |
| 26 | However , if there is an overriding reason for wanting to publish group accounts ( as statutory accounts ) without a cash flow statement , there may be a way . |
| 27 | His reason for wanting to go , he said , was because ‘ I had heard it was for charity and I knew Elton John . |
| 28 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 29 | The possibility of witnessing someone 's true nature is the main reason for wanting to see music performed live . ’ |
| 30 | But staying meant dying , and now the painter had an added reason for wanting to live . |