Example sentences of "[adv] want to " in BNC.
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1 | Why do all plasterboards secretly want to be a FERMACELL gypsum-fibreboard ? |
2 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
3 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
4 | We mostly want to be left to get on with Afterwards . |
5 | ‘ Oh great , so that old fuck Jamieson was right and all women secretly want to be raped . ’ |
6 | Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him . |
7 | I do so want to be pure in body and mind . |
8 | ‘ It caters for people who do n't necessarily want to be Cher . ’ |
9 | Nor do I try to get in touch with Lord Mountbatten , and I would not necessarily want to . |
10 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
11 | I do n't much want to be a charge on charity if I can avoid it . " |
12 | ’ I do n't much want to be at home on my own . |
13 | I mean , I do n't especially want to , but … ’ |
14 | There is a question of powerlessness , on the other hand there is the question that , you know , even if you 've got power do you constantly want to be having to police your own bodily boundaries , as it were , and I do n't think it is right to ask women to be doing that . |
15 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
16 | It only wants to be played on . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |
19 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
20 | Death only wants to be life . |
21 | He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country . |
22 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
23 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
24 | I think we only want to be on the mainframe so that the divisions can access details in the middle of the night . |
25 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
26 | I only want to be taught . |
27 | I mean , deserving cases like Neil who as he says only want to be taught , get next to nothing , but it seems to me that people like your sister Jane and Trevor get given the earth . |
28 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
29 | ‘ I 've heard that I 'm the most unsavoury , unconscionable character that ever existed but people all want to be associated with me and sit with me , ’ he said . |
30 | So really when he well it obviously wants to be in the place where you want it . |