Example sentences of "but i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have said anything , made an excuse , but I wanted to be straight and it 's only making things worse . ’ |
| 2 | But I wanted to feel my spine tickle and my pulses beat , and my hair stir gently at the roots with suspense as that voice cried out from somewhere near our drawing room curtains . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a battle , but I wanted a battle and I want more of them . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was a battle , but I wanted a battle and I want more of them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 6 | I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it . |
| 7 | But I wanted to close that window first , make sure he did n't come back . |
| 8 | I hate all this la-di-da stuff but I wanted to hear what he said so I volunteered to serve their lunch and planned to loiter in the dining-room on the slightest pretext . |
| 9 | ‘ I have to go back now , but I wanted to tell you myself . ’ |
| 10 | I am sure you are well-meaning , but I wanted you to know how I feel . |
| 11 | ‘ But I wanted to get out into the commercial world . |
| 12 | The speculation about Dido that accompanies this view has a gossamer base , but I wanted to accept it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was on my way to Rome , but I wanted to buy some new shoes in London . |
| 14 | But I wanted you to be the first I told . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They were incredible shots , powerful and practical images all of them , but I wanted beautiful photographs so anything nonethereal stayed out . ’ |
| 16 | By sunrise , one or two members of the family , having slept on it , start to think , ‘ but I wanted to show ’ , or ‘ 1 wanted to work our new dog ’ and on reading the pup 's ancestry find no track record for either . |
| 17 | ‘ But I wanted to come and thank you properly for all that you have done . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Paris was the place then , ’ he said , ‘ but I wanted to be different . |
| 19 | I had the crust , but I wanted the meat . |
| 20 | In some ways I wish I had something to fall back on but I wanted to play guitar in a band , not waste time at university . ’ |
| 21 | I knew that I would take her back eventually , but I wanted to torment her with indifference . |
| 22 | But I wanted to present an exotic image , a man of the world blown in from foreign parts to bring some much-needed glamour to Karen 's drab suburban existence . |
| 23 | Back to the basins to give my hair a brush-through : I liked myself spiky , hedgehog , but I wanted a will-brushed hedgehog . |
| 24 | But I wanted to work for myself . |
| 25 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 26 | I could feel it pulling me in , but I wanted to remain a bachelor . |
| 27 | But I wanted the part , whatever the part was . |
| 28 | But I wanted to be involved with a company who was well into the swing of tube amps and take it on from there , and so I started with Ampeg in 1990 . ’ |
| 29 | But I wanted Black Francis to come in and work on that track . |
| 30 | But I wanted to do it , because I did n't want anyone else to be speaking my ideas when it was such a personal statement . |