Example sentences of "[pron] want to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not everyone wants to get tight , you know . ’ |
| 3 | According to Nigel , ‘ everyone wants to get as much for himself and hang on to it : that 's the definition of conservatism ’ . |
| 4 | Everyone wants to get into his band . |
| 5 | Everyone wants to get away now do n't they ? |
| 6 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 7 | Well , I 'll help you , I 'll be round , I 'll be here helping but I must I want to get on with some work . |
| 8 | If someone wants to get you , they 'll keep trying — and you 'll never be sure where they are . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why I want to get out of it . ’ |
| 10 | If it is , it none the less dates back explicitly to 1961 when he played Littlechap , the Everyman figure who makes it big , in Stop The World — I Want To Get Off at the Queen 's . |
| 11 | I want to get out there . |
| 12 | I want to get summat else to play with and I try and get up , but Peter holds me by the arm . |
| 13 | I want to get home too . ’ |
| 14 | I want to get him up to Inspector as soon as possible . ’ |
| 15 | I love rap but in the future I want to get back to the funk . |
| 16 | I want to get the now constantly recurring image or memory of the scraggy sheep huddled together at night in the bus shelter off the top of my mind : it is disconcerting to be writing about one thing and yet be presented while doing so with quite another set of pictures . |
| 17 | If they know which party you are from and say , ‘ Oh I expect I 'll vote for you ’ , they probably mean ‘ I wo n't , but I want to get rid of you quickly because Dallas is just beginning ’ , or , I 've no idea and I 'm really not interested — politicians are all the same . ’ |
| 18 | I want to get it down now , while there are still people who remember a time that was . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to get out of that . |
| 20 | I want to get more experience under my belt . |
| 21 | Another passer-by , a 21-year-old salesman , said : ‘ I only voted because I want to get married and I do n't want any problems . ’ |
| 22 | I want to get out of here . |
| 23 | I want to get home . |
| 24 | However I want to get opinions from any of you on how to go on from here . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I was five months in Brazil and I thought then , if I want to get further into South America I need Spanish . |
| 26 | What I want to get at through these quicksand-like words is how Coward shared and contributed to making the male homosexual structure of feeling that I and many other contemporary gay men find in his writing . |
| 27 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps they were too busy to feel queasy , but as far as I was concerned , before we had been airborne half an hour I felt like crying out , ‘ Stop the plane , I want to get off ! ’ |
| 29 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 30 | I want to get a book . ’ |