Example sentences of "i [adv] want [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 2 | I believe that the C E C is accepting this , and I just want to say to the branch secretaries out there , do what I do , tell every member grab the cheque and throw the disclaimer in the bin . |
| 3 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 4 | ‘ I just want to talk to you about him . |
| 5 | I just want to talk to you , honey , and I ca n't . |
| 6 | I just want to go to bed and get to sleep . |
| 7 | ‘ I just want to go to sleep . |
| 8 | I just want to go to sleep and forget — forget it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , but — I just want to go to my room . ’ |
| 10 | I just want to get to Marks and Spencer . ’ |
| 11 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 12 | And I want to get back into Tibet and I also want to go to Russia . |
| 13 | But for today I now want to turn to a number of erm definitions and classifications linked to foreign policy and this is where I want you to start working a bit harder . |
| 14 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 15 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 16 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 17 | I never want to talk to you again about anything else but work . ’ |
| 18 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
| 19 | The only mail I get from Czechoslovakia is a junk mail actually , it 's all about some wine club that I never want to belong to , but erm , if Darwin had only opened it , er do n't throw it away , it could be , it could be th it could be the paper from that will save you infinite trouble . |
| 20 | 12 years as good friends … now I never want to speak to David again , says Jim |
| 21 | I never want to speak to David again . ’ |