Example sentences of "really want [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do I really want with the girl ? |
| 2 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 3 | You must really want to be doing something else but you wo n't let yourself admit it . ’ |
| 4 | Of course he does n't really want to be alone . |
| 5 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |
| 6 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 7 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 8 | Even after that , they still seemed to be completely bewildered , and kept repeating , ‘ But you do n't really want to be alone , do you ? ’ |
| 9 | And do you really want to ? |
| 10 | That means he does n't really want to . |
| 11 | We did put one more record together with Bob Clearmountain , ‘ Into The Fire ’ , and that 's when I said , ‘ That 's it , I do n't really want to be hands-on any more . ' ’ |
| 12 | Does the speaker really want to be known as ‘ poor Nell , such an incompetent twit ’ . |
| 13 | I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker . |
| 14 | I shall not really want to . |
| 15 | I 'm sure that 's why so many people compromise and end up in relationships which they do n't really want to be in . |
| 16 | He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler . |
| 17 | It had to be done through the American Consulate at Marseilles , sixty miles there and back , she was away most of the day ; I was glad of that too , we did n't really want to be alone with each other just then . |
| 18 | It does n't really want to and I find it difficult to believe and I 'm not sure I want to because I feel so fucking drained and sore , but the thing 's actually responding , fattening and firming and rising in her kneading , soap-slick hands . |
| 19 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 20 | He could go , but did he really want to ? |
| 21 | The Doctor could n't quite make out what it was that had moved , but going by the gelid fluidity of the apparent movement , he did n't really want to . |
| 22 | Tracy was persuaded , but as time went on , decided she did n't really want to be with him , so she left him . |
| 23 | The only thing is , I did n't really want to be a tailoress , I wanted to be a nurse , but had n't much choice , then . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you really want to ? ’ |
| 25 | Did I really want to be left in Danu without a protector ? |
| 26 | Well , we did n't quite say that , but we do n't really want to . |
| 27 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't really want to , Jimbo . |
| 29 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 30 | Does the BBC really want to be inhumane ? |