Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I just want to be sure . |
| 2 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
| 3 | I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’ |
| 4 | I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’ |
| 5 | I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 7 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 9 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 10 | I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’ |
| 11 | I just want to be comfortable . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 13 | I really want to be successful . ’ |
| 14 | And I then want to be able to collect information on sources of pollution around their sites , if they notice particularly busy roads , things like that . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe you just want to be big again . |
| 16 | The YPLL panel study asked young people : Where do you go and what do you do if you just want to be alone to think ? ’ |
| 17 | I think it is sad if you just want to be popular for the sake of it . |
| 18 | ‘ It actually you said something like : I know your answer to this will almost certainly be no , but if you still want to be involved with The Wedding Present , then do n't let Shaun 's sacking stand in your way , ’ he says . |
| 19 | You want the weight to stay off and you also want to be able to eat a reasonable amount of food after the diet without putting on weight . |
| 20 | Areas can be painted in or you can edit the Attribute screen on a pixel by pixel basis — in magnified mode if you really want to be accurate . |
| 21 | If you really want to be devious , you could spend the money on a particle accelerator . |
| 22 | If you really want to be energetic , there 's windsurfing and waterskiing here or you can stroll along the beach to where they still make wooden Turkish boats by hand . |
| 23 | So if you really want to be kind , that 's what you 'll let me do . ’ |
| 24 | And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal . |
| 25 | We just want to be sure everything is hunky-dory . ’ |
| 26 | We just want to be alone |