Example sentences of "[adv] want [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We mostly want to be left to get on with Afterwards . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh great , so that old fuck Jamieson was right and all women secretly want to be raped . ’ |
| 3 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 4 | There is a question of powerlessness , on the other hand there is the question that , you know , even if you 've got power do you constantly want to be having to police your own bodily boundaries , as it were , and I do n't think it is right to ask women to be doing that . |
| 5 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 6 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 7 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
| 8 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 9 | I only want to be taught . |
| 10 | I mean , deserving cases like Neil who as he says only want to be taught , get next to nothing , but it seems to me that people like your sister Jane and Trevor get given the earth . |
| 11 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've heard that I 'm the most unsavoury , unconscionable character that ever existed but people all want to be associated with me and sit with me , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 14 | She had so much wanted to be fancied , it seemed a cruel blow to think that if it ever happened it might only be by someone as awful as Sean Walsh . |
| 15 | But she had so wanted to be left alone for a while . |
| 16 | She merely wanted to be whisked from luxury hotel to draught-free concert hall in a big limousine , there to play to an attentive , elegant audience and be driven away again surrounded by encores and orchids . |
| 17 | Since the man was in this incapable state most afternoons , the head rightly wanted to be rid of him . |
| 18 | " Keep still if you can , poor old chap , " said Acorn , who obviously wanted to be overheard . |
| 19 | She very obviously wanted to be left alone . |
| 20 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 21 | She does not want of be forced into a legal structure dominated by her . |
| 22 | Mike , 47 , said : ‘ I did not want to be accepted on my fame as a comic . ’ |
| 23 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 24 | Of course Harry would not want to be burdened with her , even if he could afford to start up his stud at Maythorpe House . |
| 25 | A 63-year-old property developer who does not want to be named , he is one of the wealthiest men on the island . |
| 26 | Today the detective constable 's wife — who does not want to be named — faces exploratory surgery after a lump was found in a breast . |
| 27 | Of course , ‘ capitalism ’ is not identified as such , just as Barthes ( 1972 ) has claimed that the bourgeoisie is ‘ the social class which does not want to be named ’ , and just as the YCs themselves preferred the label of ‘ ordinary ’ to a class identification . |
| 28 | One solicitor , who did not want to be named , said the new rules were introduced to ensure public accountability for legal aid fees , to which they did not object . |
| 29 | She did not want to be named , but told The Northern last night : ‘ I left the CTC for a variety of reasons . |
| 30 | Another neighbour who did not want to be named said : ‘ The fire was really ferocious . |