Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 2 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 3 | I just wanted to say that question , so , who discovered Uranus in seventeen eighty one ? |
| 4 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 5 | ‘ I just wanted to make some sense out of life . ’ |
| 6 | I just wanted to compete any time , anywhere . |
| 7 | I feel as if I just want to leave this place — and never see it — or anyone here ever again . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I just want to finish this tower , and that 'll be it . ’ |
| 9 | I would simply like to point out that the protection of the countryside and agricultural land for its own sake is the policy that should be er er applied in this case , and I just want to make that point . |
| 10 | I just want to make this phone call for when we lock the door and . |
| 11 | Now I just want to end this morning session by reminding you to be in your seats by two twenty . |
| 12 | Yeah I just want to get some orange juice . |
| 13 | ‘ I just want to get this season over and start from fresh again , ’ added the ring-rusty world No 55 , also forced to play in glasses for the first time . |
| 14 | extent erm but obviously I also want to earn some money . |
| 15 | I now want to add another dimension which relates to what I have said about aggression . |
| 16 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 17 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 18 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 19 | I never want to face that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I never want to hear that name again , ’ Sophie broke in , then felt rather foolish as Helen raised her eyebrows . |
| 21 | But I never wanted to see that gasoline engine washer on this hardstand again with the gas trucks parked around it . |
| 22 | You would stutter a reply that you just wanted to read some news today . |
| 23 | So I think her mother 's gon na be in for a bit of a shock because they all think that they 're gon na get married so quick , I think she just wanted to get that ring on her finger so she can reap the ackers and I think she 's gon na do a runner . |
| 24 | Erm , that should go at the very front of your binder , if you really want to keep that information in your binder . |
| 25 | But it 's handy to get them at home , so that you can see whether you really want to make that journey after all . |
| 26 | eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for |
| 27 | We also want to see more money spent on the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme , with all houses in poor physical condition upgraded to a minimum standard . ’ |
| 28 | But the team has shown it has potential and we now want to help that talent by bringing in some experienced players . ’ |
| 29 | They come here to make a success of their lives , which suggests to me that , despite all the gloomy statistics and stories that we hear from the Opposition , this is still a country of enterprise and opportunity , if one really wants to find that opportunity . |
| 30 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |