Example sentences of "just [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 61 | Because I just want to be sure . |
| 62 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
| 63 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 64 | I mean most women just want to be good at something , they 've got good-at minds , and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not . |
| 65 | I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’ |
| 66 | We just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 67 | I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’ |
| 68 | I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’ |
| 69 | I just want to be left in peace , I need time … ’ |
| 70 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 71 | 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 ? ’ |
| 72 | Deep down , I suppose I just want to be wanted . |
| 73 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 74 | Sometimes you just want to be left alone , so I understand the violent reactions some celebrities have when they 're infringed upon . |
| 75 | 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 . |
| 76 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 77 | ‘ I do n't know about being a sex symbol — I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine in your cornflakes , ’ he laughs . |
| 78 | I just want to be the sprinkling of sunshine on your cornflakes ! |
| 79 | Venables added : ‘ I just want to be in charge of a successful football club challenging for the league . |
| 80 | ‘ It 's a life-long ambition of mine to be a chauffeur and I just want to be given a chance . ’ |
| 81 | Well that 's one of my next questions because I think it 's debatable either way , a a lot of people and I 'm finding this just want to be in a neighbourhood watch scheme to take advantage of insurance er and also to have the sign up once the signs are up and they got insurance they 're not bothered , and you can tell that by the er gist of the conversation on the telephone . |
| 82 | You 're not cold you just want to be cuddled . |
| 83 | ‘ With Jimmy just happening to be there ? ’ |
| 84 | This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale . |
| 85 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 86 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 87 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 88 | It just happens to be legal . ’ |
| 89 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |
| 90 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |