Example sentences of "and [pers pn] want [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing the piano is something I love and I want to be brilliant at it . ’ |
| 2 | And I want to eat well and I want to be comfortable and I want to stay in good hotel |
| 3 | Jane Mahmoud , of Harrogate , said : ‘ I am a single parent with two children , and I want to be able to support myself . |
| 4 | And I want to be alone . ’ |
| 5 | My head fuzzes up and I want to be sick . ’ |
| 6 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 7 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a night a few weeks past , when I was ill , when my spirit left my body and I wanted to be free for ever . |
| 9 | I 've had enough of it and I wanted to be alone . |
| 10 | ‘ And you want to be first in line to give it them . ’ |
| 11 | But if you 're actually involved in it , and you want to be involved in the people , then I think you have to know something about it . |
| 12 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 13 | But in fact is a Rolls Royce a quality car if you want to go shopping and you want to be able to park it in small paces places and get round multistorey car parks ? |
| 14 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 15 | It was early afternoon and she wanted to be sure of getting to Panshanger before Wyatt returned . |
| 16 | She would see– him occasionally for the rest of her life , and she wanted to be able to chat to him , invite him for more games of chess , more visits to historic gardens . |
| 17 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 18 | Yes , we 're in competition and we want to be able to say to our members do n't go to that trade union because they will put you all in one lump , go to this one because we 've got sections , because we look at our members with individual needs and please support this motion . |
| 19 | And we want to be able to provide the controllability that we achieve traditionally through centralization in the mainframe environment in what will inevitably be a distributed world . |
| 20 | The quality of our people have to be second to none and so our only asset would again be sensible to ensure that the best people , that we recruited the best people and we retained the best people and we wanted to be profitable , wanted to be lean and mean , hungry and er any profitable organisation is going to be a better organisation as a result of improved profitability and we then finally wanted to improve the quality of our image out there in the market place , we were seen and at least that was I think the Department , certainly my perception we were seen er as being a sort of gentle giant out there . |
| 21 | ‘ I have spoken to most captains and a lot of players and the general feeling is that we have played against sides in the past with Test players and we wanted to be able to fight fire with fire so to speak . |
| 22 | They want to be effective in helping children to learn and develop , and they want to be able to feel pleasure in doing so , and pleased with themselves ( though often they find this a not-quite-nice thing to admit to ) for having done a good job . |
| 23 | After 27 years at BTR 's electrical wholesaling subsidiary Newey & Eyre , 46-year-old Alan knew he had a worthwhile asset in his preserved pension and he wanted to be sure he got the best value . |