adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be wanted on the phone
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Larry, tell Rosemary that she’s wanted on the phone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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And with its colour graphics screen is the most wanted hand-held machine you can get.
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You're the most wanted man in Britain.
■ NOUN
man
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Nobody, it seemed, could say one good word about the wanted man .
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But instead he's a wanted man on the run from the police.
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Just over half the wanted men were in their twenties.
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There were no photographs of the wanted man and no two people could agree about his appearance.
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You're the most wanted man in Britain.
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When he had not returned by lam, it was assumed that he was the wanted man .
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Newcastle's wanted man won't make any decision for at least another seven days following talks in London with boss Kevin Keegan.
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How many new contracts would he get if it came out that guests of his had held clandestine meetings with wanted men ?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I just wanted to say/know etc
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I asked them, and this is what they told me. I just wanted to know did you know any more.
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In the ambulance, I just wanted to know the damage.
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The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I never felt wanted by my parents.
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Mr. Bendiger, you're wanted on the telephone.
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Richards is wanted for the murder of a security guard at the City Bank in December of last year.
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The mass murderer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" was for a long time the most wanted man in Britain.