Example sentences of "want [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 2 | David I do n't suppose you want to be doing that for |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know if I want to be doing this in ten years ’ time but I certainly believe it is important to plan ahead . |
| 4 | Older people we know want to be offered more ways of preventing illness , so you know , they have to really be informed , er we want them to know about it so then they can make the choice as to whether they take it up with their G P . |
| 5 | ‘ We want to be talking two to three days here . |
| 6 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 7 | We want to be left alone . |
| 8 | They want to be left alone ; fear being touched because of the bodily soreness . |
| 9 | Subordinates want to be left alone while their superiors want no surprises . |
| 10 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 11 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 12 | " I want to be left alone . |
| 13 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 14 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 15 | Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese . |
| 16 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 17 | They want to be proved right . |
| 18 | Very irritable and wants to be left alone ; slightest motion causes pain , even turning the head ; dry lips and copious thirst for cold water . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He wants to be left alone to get on with the job , including completing Knowsley 's ‘ positive futures ’ programme to develop a direct services system for supporting those in need living in the community . |
| 21 | Perhaps he wants to be left alone . ’ |
| 22 | He thinks about whether he really wants to be doing this with his life at all . |
| 23 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 24 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 25 | I remember definite feelings of not wanting to be felt sorry for , very much wanting everything to carry on as normal . |
| 26 | Anybody else wanting to be talking last day of term , it might be worthwhile now . |
| 27 | he 's bound to be coming in and wanting to be starting that job |
| 28 | And what 's so terrible about wanting to be left alone ? |
| 29 | ‘ If somebody were fashion conscious when alive , why should they want to be seen dead in something unflattering ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't want to be seen naked on anyone 's coffee table ’ . |