Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 3 | ‘ I badly want to run well again over 10,000m . |
| 4 | You see , Harry is coming over from America for that month and I so want to see him . |
| 5 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 6 | I merely want to open all the doors as far as they will go at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 8 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 9 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 10 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 11 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 12 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 13 | As I have not had any personal experience of prostitution , I obviously want to get my fact right . |
| 14 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 15 | ‘ I only want to sell me flowers wherever I find meself a customer . ’ |
| 16 | I only want to do daddy 's pyjamas for the hospital |
| 17 | I only want to taste it |
| 18 | I only want to see her a moment . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I only want to see Vince . |
| 20 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 21 | I only want to tackle two things . |
| 22 | I only want to say through the Voice : I am truly grateful to them all , and God bless them all . |
| 23 | Erm I only want to say it is very important that we must do nothing to sort of prejudice the outcome of the consideration of the planning application environment cases sub committee , erm at a later erm stage . |
| 24 | ‘ Rokeya , I only want to talk . |
| 25 | I , I only want to mention about the swimming pool and swimming for pensioners and there ever such a lot of people go swimming . |
| 26 | I only want to pick something up from Union Street , so it 's on the way . ’ |
| 27 | I only want to deal with it in broad terms and that is that compared to earlier E I Ps where West Yorkshire authorities were saying , Do n't take too many people into North Yorkshire , as you 'll undermine our regeneration to paraphrase . |
| 28 | Oh you never know you might win that , I only want to win it cos . |
| 29 | I only want to think you perfect … ’ |
| 30 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |