Example sentences of "just want " in BNC.
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| 31 | But this day is something I 've dreamed of since I was a kid and I just want to enjoy it . |
| 32 | But unlike Labour , who just want to extend national insurance contributions to all levels of income , we want to consolidate them into income tax . |
| 33 | I just want to get to Marks and Spencer . ’ |
| 34 | As much as the militants ' venom , I recall the desperation of pickets who said they ‘ just want to get it over with ’ and strikers ' wives wondering where the next meal was coming from . |
| 35 | ‘ We just want to work out an agreement to provide all athletes with free accommodation . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ I just want to score runs and see what happens . |
| 37 | I just want to know if your anger is because of the way the project has absorbed me lately , or if it 's simply the ill-mannered forgetfulness I showed last night — which I do n't deny , and for which I again apologize . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ We just want to clear one or two points . ’ |
| 39 | The use of ‘ but ’ where common sense demands ‘ and ’ is symptomatic of a general malaise : the scriptwriters do n't think about the meaning of what they 've written , they just want it to sound pretty . |
| 40 | ‘ No , I just want to make a private call . |
| 41 | I just want to keep travelling . |
| 42 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 43 | ‘ You mean they put out they 're into free fucking but really they just want to get hitched ? ’ |
| 44 | ‘ I just want to forget it all , ’ Murray reiterated , and in his agitation stuffed both letters together into his trouser pocket , where they remained , forgotten , until a month later when he returned to the London apartment , cramped but in a smart street in Chelsea , which his mother 's divorce settlement had provided . |
| 45 | Like Chance Wayne when you watch that scene in the film , he made you just want to wake up with him in the room , wake up with him in the bed beside you . |
| 46 | Actually , I am not sure that I was there on that night of his arrival , and I do n't claim to remember all the details or to have been as impressed by his appearance , framed in the doorway , as some people I drink with do ; I think they just want to talk about their witnessing his first appearance that way — as if he was an angel or something extraordinary — because of what went on to happen later . |
| 47 | Why are they so special to me , these two , why do I remember that one kiss out of all the other romances I knew about there in that place on that particular Friday evening , why do I remember it , do I actually remember it all or just want to ? |
| 48 | ‘ I just want to get around in one piece . |
| 49 | ‘ I just want to check the restaurant first . |
| 50 | ‘ I just want it back , ’ said Dotty simply . |
| 51 | Me and Henry , say , who just want a mortgage and a little house and get on with Elinor started to make more anguished noises . |
| 52 | ‘ I just want to carry on , ’ she said , ‘ as if all this had never happened . ’ |
| 53 | You just want to tuck the board under your arm , run down the beach , paddle out and have fun . |
| 54 | ‘ Right now , I do n't want to talk , I just want to surf . ’ |
| 55 | I just want to ask you something . ’ |
| 56 | So I just want a plain box and a plain stone , and a plain speech from the priest , and you can do what you like with the business . |
| 57 | ‘ Good , now I just want you to save me and yourself a lot of trouble by filling in this form for the Red Cross . ’ |
| 58 | Some people just want to be told what to eat . |
| 59 | Thinking about going abroad or just want to take up an exciting new pastime ? |
| 60 | Many women are filled with trepidation at the thought of their husbands ' retirement because they just want to do nothing . |