Example sentences of "but [adj] [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 2 | ‘ Manners , she says — but all you want is to belt across country for a couple of miles . |
| 3 | But all I want is you . |
| 4 | But all I want is a knob to say right film tonight |
| 5 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 6 | ‘ Sure , I 'll go up to Sandy , but first I want to see this great one you 're expecting . ’ |
| 7 | My plan is to consider inter-relations between welfare improvement and the safeguarding of the environment , but first I want to talk about what the term ‘ welfare ’ means , and how we can use it in a scientific way . |
| 8 | ‘ But first I want to do a line drawing from it , which can be used as a frontispiece for the book when it is published . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But first I want the gold medal from the World Championships in Stuttgart next year . |
| 10 | But first I want the gold medal from the World Championships in Stuttgart next year . ’ |
| 11 | I should like to discuss the reasons for this a little later , but first I want to discuss the teaching of English . |
| 12 | ‘ But first I want to promise you a couple of things . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to be a novelist , but first I want to get a degree and ffeatherstonehaugh 's makes that possible . ’ |
| 14 | But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised . |
| 15 | But first I want to pull all their nails out , ’ shouted one man . |