Example sentences of "[det] [pron] want [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | some she want 's a some vegetable samosas , thank you very much . |
| 2 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 3 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 4 | In Pakistan all that changed , all I wanted was the bed on which to lie alone . |
| 5 | I know , sir , all I wanted was to wish an old hero a happy birthday . |
| 6 | ‘ All I wanted was to get moved in somewhere nice before he comes back . ’ |
| 7 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 8 | All I wanted was The Marriage of Figaro , live from the Met in New York . |
| 9 | . I was ill as well as desolate , and all I wanted was to hide my wretchedness from everyone . ’ |
| 10 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 11 | ‘ All I wanted was a signed photograph or something like that . ’ |
| 12 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 13 | All I wanted was an exceptional career for Jean-Claude , for that was what he wanted for himself . |
| 14 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |
| 15 | ‘ All I wanted was to prove my husband right . |
| 16 | But all I wanted was a bit of independence , a chance to find myself and discover what I really wanted from life . ’ |
| 17 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 18 | All I wanted was a few roses , for goodness ’ sake . ’ |
| 19 | All I wanted was a tin of paint . |
| 20 | ‘ What kind of individual would I be , if all I wanted was to replace one woman with another ? |
| 21 | All I wanted was to become pregnant — then I would no longer have to go to Abraham 's tent and lie next to his old , drained body . |
| 22 | ‘ All I wanted was what you thought . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel . |
| 24 | All I wanted was to be away from Hampton Court before I further incurred Henry 's wrath . |
| 25 | You thought my motives were suspect , that all I wanted was to get control of your practice and eventually edge you out altogether . |
| 26 | Yeah , all I wanted was go in and , now we 're bankrupt and we 're nowt where we are . |
| 27 | Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know . |
| 28 | All I want 's a bit of cooperation . |
| 29 | All I want is to get it out of the flat , I said . |
| 30 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |