Example sentences of "[subord] i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 2 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 3 | ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There was definitely a point in my life where I wanted black kids , ’ says Neneh . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to rush around trying to find a farmer with a cart who might be going where I wanted , ’ Katz lamented , his woebegone countenance matching his sorry tale . |
| 6 | I had no such skill , but I was learning , and it was an infinite satisfaction to keep Joanna moving , and going where I wanted her to go , with the sweep . |
| 7 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 8 | Tried projecting negative of Bride from holograph enlarger , he wrote , but image thin and weak where I want it strong ( though indeterminate ) . |
| 9 | Even if I cast through this gap accurately , the speed of the cast must be faultless too , for the gap between the branches and the roots is a mere two feet : too far and I am in the roots , too near and my bait will not be lying where I want it . |
| 10 | This time my cast lands exactly where I want it , just short of the overhanging branches . |
| 11 | Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place . |
| 12 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 13 | I can escape other troubles and concentrate on just the one problem — how to make that damn ball go where I want . |
| 14 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 15 | And now , Ian Wharton , now that you are no longer the subject of this cautionary tale , merely its object , now that you are just another unproductive atom staring out from the windows of a branded monad , now that I 've got you where I want you , let the wild rumpus begin . |
| 16 | And he does n't let me ride where I want . ’ |
| 17 | colour this is not going to go where I want it to go . |
| 18 | I can see the range , where it is , and where I want it to be . |
| 19 | Peggy ’ — he put his hand out towards her — ‘ I 've got him where I want him , where we all want him . |
| 20 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 21 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 22 | I 've got you where I want you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 24 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 25 | At the moment I have no plans for the future except I want what 's best for my little girl . |
| 26 | ‘ Except I want to know where they from . |
| 27 | Yes I am 'cause I want some . |
| 28 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 29 | Although I wanted to rush back upstairs and read the letter straight away I decided to hold onto it and read it later . |
| 30 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |