Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] want [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you feel that your original decision was not very wise , or that you never really made a decision , or you just want to review your situation , this course can help you . |
| 2 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 3 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes I feel that I never want to see it again . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hampshire have been so good to me since I was a youngster here that I really want to win something again for them , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Cassie knew suddenly that she desperately wanted to see her mother and father before they left England . |
| 7 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 8 | She just come to tell me that she really wants to take him out . |
| 9 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 10 | What you 're really saying , I think is , that you actually want to do it |
| 11 | Eating badly and gaining weight is an unpleasant experience , and should be so different from your new lifestyle that you never want to do it again . |
| 12 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
| 13 | One logical reason for this , besides the fact that we naturally want to relate our assets to our goals , is because God takes good care of his property . |
| 14 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 15 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
| 16 | The first thing to note about the raw strategy is that it dearly wants to have it all . |
| 17 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 18 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 19 | He was run down and killed , but he was so attached to his job that he still wants to keep his eye on his old work place . |
| 20 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 21 | Robert , a 31 year old architectural technician , found her very attractive too , and felt that he definitely wanted to know her better . |
| 22 | As one who went through this situation recently , I ‘ feel ’ for you and I just wanted to let you know this . |
| 23 | ‘ Golf was his love and I just wanted to help him . |
| 24 | Sadly I have not read this but I am such a fan of the author and he is so well connected that he gets reviews everywhere , and I just wanted to slip it in . |
| 25 | Now , erm I think I should make clear that I have some personal feelings on this , and I just want to say something very briefly about my neighbours , something I actually do n't agree with . |
| 26 | But this day is something I 've dreamed of since I was a kid and I just want to enjoy it . |
| 27 | One other letter , while we 're mentioning receipts of things , the report does say that er Environmental Services Committee will be considering this and I have er yesterday received a letter from and I just want to tell you the outcome of that before the actual vote occurs , if there is one . |
| 28 | She 's looking for a decent second-hand one , and I actually want to buy her a new one , and she does n't know about it . |
| 29 | ‘ It probably sounds like a B-movie cliche , but I married my country … and I still want to serve her . |
| 30 | I have a debt to pay off and I still want to beat you . ’ |