Example sentences of "[vb base] i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
| 2 | You make me want to throw up ! |
| 3 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You make me want you , ’ he murmured . |
| 5 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 6 | ‘ You make me want to throw up . ’ |
| 7 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 8 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 9 | So I said , ‘ Maria , I am experimenting and when I say ‘ experiment ’ I mean I want to see how it presents itself . |
| 10 | I suppose you think I mean I want to walk down the aisle in white with my friends watching , but that 's not it , that 's not what this feeling is to do with . |
| 11 | I mean I want |
| 12 | I mean I want to talk to you about something . |
| 13 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 14 | It 's just that I 've I mean I want a curtain there as well because otherwise it all looks a bit heavy but I do n't think I could put a blind down there because of the way |
| 15 | ‘ If you mean I want them to look at my gown , you 're correct . ’ |
| 16 | I , I mean I want to actually put in some you know some real kind of , you know , rather |
| 17 | Well no I mean I want to know . |
| 18 | Er well I mean I want to find from A T S or someone like that how much their cars would cost |
| 19 | Yeah , what I mean I want some time off to be able to re-write properly . |
| 20 | I mean I want to do Village back up . |
| 21 | ‘ Supposing I say I want to look at you , to hear you talk in your funny English voice ? |
| 22 | Yes , the time when it has to come in , the day I say I want to collect it , now you might need to say to yourself , oh dear , Mrs said the deadline was , have I met it ? |
| 23 | But you can take it back and say I want my money ? |
| 24 | And then say I want to go to toilet and then I should pinch something |
| 25 | ‘ What if I say I want to stay a while longer ? ’ she asked teasingly . |
| 26 | Er and I say I want to come on the on the phone and I want to talk to James , I want to put him straight , I tell him that we 're not doing this and I want to tell him that we actually erm know that er the people will be concerned about us giving ourselves a huge pay rise . |
| 27 | All I have to do is go and see her and say I want to know see each one ticked . |
| 28 | ‘ To those who compare Wokingham and Tredegar as if condemning Wokingham for daring to succeed , I say I want Tredegar and the valleys to understand and share more of Wokingham 's success . ’ |
| 29 | Cos I think it 's got everything possible , cos I want , say I want a door reef |
| 30 | So er say I want ring Sarah at work |