What Joyce wanted me to do was go to Thor's house and `` do whatever detectives do '', and get her clothes -- and handbag containing her identification.

And when he complained of the lack of time for all he wanted to do, Henrietta advised him to rise at five in the morning as she and Papa did.

All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and look and look and look.

All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.

The English lady wanted to pay tribute to Garibaldi and to Lauro Di Bosis, but she wasn't going to be here to do it.

The promoter who wanted to sign him up for the circus asked him how he was able to do it.

I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

I said sure that was what I wanted her to do but she paid no attention.

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

He wanted to ask her about Jenkins now, but he knew he couldn't do so in Needham's presence.

There were two things he wanted to do: inspect one of the many caves that had been dug into the hills on the Naval Base, and visit an old shipmate.

Nothing was too impossible for her to do when she wanted.

He helped her meet people so she could go out and do the work she wanted.

I wanted to slap his face, to wipe forever the insolence and brutal glee from his mouth, and I decided then, very suddenly, what I would do.

When the younger brother wanted to look away from the human corpses and animal carcasses scattered everywhere, Heigo forbade him to do so, instead encouraging Akira to face his fears by confronting them directly.

Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.

Korner said, " From then on all I wanted to do was play the blues.

When Benny stepped in as the Hep Stars ' keyboardist in October of that year, he knew this was what he wanted to do.

He also wanted to do a film on the Biblical Book of Revelation.

However, he cannot permanently ' reprogram ' human minds to believe what he might want them to believe even if he wanted to do so, explaining that the mind is an organism that would always recall the steps necessary for it to reach the present and thus ' rewrite ' itself to its original setting if he tried to change it.

I never wanted to do TV, but I gave it 100 percent anyway.

Fenrir judged that it was not beyond his strength, and so let the gods do what they wanted with it.

But the former Leicester and Stoke City keeper wanted to save his children the burden of deciding what to do with the medal after his death.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

These reforms not only increased investor confidence, but they were also supported by the IMF and the World Bank, however, they were not welcome widely by the Hungarians ; Bokros broke the negative record of popularity: 9 % of the population wanted to see him in an " important political position " and only 4 % were convinced that the reforms would " improve the country's finances in a big way "

It also wanted more people to move away from the countryside of northern Sweden and in to the big cities of southern Sweden, leaving upper Sweden to fend for itself.

The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South ; Tarantino has called the proposed style " a southern ", stating that he wanted " to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

Moore recalled that " we wanted to aim high, do something different and big ... We knew we had to have a strong Picard story arc, so what are the profound things in a man's life he has to face?

Meyer had many heated arguments over elements in the script, both little and big, that the network censors wanted cut out of the film.

She also commented that she once saw a woman in her audience dressed in dripping chiffon with a Gibson Girl hairstyle and big boots and Nicks knew she wanted something similar.

The BCRA was a mixed bag for those who wanted to remove big money from politics.

While Tate reportedly wanted a traditional marriage, Polanski remained somewhat promiscuous and described Tate's attitude to his infidelity as " Sharon's big hang-up ".

In the early days of US automobile use, people wanted to see the gasoline they were about to buy in a big glass pitcher, a direct measure of volume and quality via appearance.

Sirk found the screenplay for All That Heaven Allows " rather impossible " but was able to restructure it and use the big budget to film and edit the work exactly the way he wanted.

Admittedly never a big fan of thrash metal music, Sid said that he had initially wanted to push his drumming to the limit by playing the most complex type of music ( of the era ), and in time he decided to pursue other musical interests.

For his thirty-fourth birthday, Tweedy received a private guitar lesson from Richard Lloyd of Television ; Tweedy was a big fan of the group and was particularly fond of the guitar work, which he wanted to incorporate into his music.

" Molly Ringwald had also wanted to play Sloane, but according to Ringwald, " John wouldn't let me do it: he said that the part wasn't big enough for me.

I wanted people to really have a great time watching this film if somewhere in the mix we lobbed a couple of big ideas at them, well, then that would be even better.

I would audition for things and I'd always be the second choice – studios never wanted to hire me and I wasn't losing the parts to big box office actresses but to ones who I guess people felt differently about.

After dropping out of high school, Prima desperately wanted to make it big.

Drummond explained the reasoning for choosing a smaller label, " We decided we wanted to be big fish in a small pond instead of a little fish in a big pond.

As fame ran out so did fortune, ( faux ) friends and fiance ; to make matters worse Philips wanted him record a Dutch-language version of Little Drummer Boy among other big plans.

In 2000, a " big offer " enticed all four original Meters to reunite for a one-night stand at the Warfield in San Francisco ; by this time Modeliste wanted to make the reunion a permanent one, but the other members and their management teams objected.

The National Policy enjoyed strong support among Canadian nationalists who wanted to ensure that Canada would never become " subservient " to the United States, and originally it was supported by big businesses who feared US competition.

" I wanted it to be-in my head-something grand, with big ideas and that vision sort of thing.

According to Gilliam's episode of The Directors ( which is available on the 2-Disc DVD for Gilliam's film Time Bandits ), he wanted to do the film because he was tired of doing big budget special effects films, such as his previous film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which went over budget and cost over $ 45 million, nearly twice as much as Kings budget of $ 24 million.