Example sentences of "[noun prp] wanted be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly through last year it became apparent that what CSRG wanted was ‘ basically the same thing as BSDI : ’ an unencumbered commercial system . |
| 2 | By then , drenched in sweat , and exhausted , all Ruth wanted was to sleep . |
| 3 | and all Julia wanted was more and more and more money , there was a conflict on how many gran children she could have and sometimes she had five in there , one of them which was then very small which she had to spend time feeding and that and that was Kerry |
| 4 | Failing to do all the IMF wanted was one thing : escaping the exigencies of dependence on foreign credit , if only to continue financing of trade , was quite another . |
| 5 | About to join a battle royal with Britain and Germany over his ambitious plans for a 30 per cent increase in the EC budget , the last thing Mr Delors wanted was more tales of bogus food exports . |
| 6 | What Owen wanted was to be in and out fast . |
| 7 | Like any actor who has to play many different parts , all Reagan wanted were a few good lines written for him on cue cards that he could quote without having to tax his own abilities . |
| 8 | What de Gaulle wanted was not just a ‘ Europe of states ’ , but one that would both be free from what he believed to be an intrusive and unacceptable American influence , and acknowledge some substantial element of French leadership . |
| 9 | What Euripides wanted was to make tragedy reasonable . |
| 10 | What Clive wanted was callow youth . |
| 11 | What Baldwin wanted was a reversion to the firm two-party system of his youth , but with the Labour Party securely established as a great party of state and the Liberal Party tucked up in the history books . |
| 12 | All Maria wanted was to get back to Mrs Lennox and old Jock again . |
| 13 | What Harry Truman wanted was for Douglas MacArthur to behave himself , he wanted Douglas MacArthur to stop giving impromptu press conferences , he wanted him to stop inventing strategy as he went without reference to the president , he simply wanted to restore the chain of command . |
| 14 | The last thing Michael Harvey wanted was to be drawn into a personal discussion . |
| 15 | ‘ The favour Melanie wanted was an abortion , was n't it ? |
| 16 | What Henry wanted was control of Scotland , no matter whether by marriage treaty or by force . |
| 17 | What Arran wanted was £5000 ; what he saw clearly enough was that the support of 5000 Englishmen would lose him four times that number of Scots . |