Example sentences of "[pron] just want to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’
2 I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules .
3 I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’
4 I just wanted to be sure
5 I just wanted to be sure you were n't trying to pull a fast one on me . ’
6 I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when .
7 ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well .
8 Okay , I just wanted to be clear we were n't finding an additional list of names of people who are authorised to do this .
9 Because I just want to be sure .
10 I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’
11 I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’
12 I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’
13 I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’
14 I just want to be able to do what I like . ’
15 I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’
16 I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism .
17 Yeah I just want to be clear on wh
18 I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’
19 I just want to be comfortable .
20 And time out : Another blow for the girl who just wants to be one of the boys .
21 THEY say every picture tells a story … and these pictures show a woman who just wants to be alone .
22 ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her .
23 ‘ Maybe you just want to be big again .
24 The YPLL panel study asked young people : Where do you go and what do you do if you just want to be alone to think ? ’
25 I think it is sad if you just want to be popular for the sake of it .
26 Aubrey was probably right — she just wanted to be able to number him among her many admirers .
27 She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers .
28 And suddenly she just wanted to be clean .
29 She just wants to be alone with her boys to try to forget the separation traumas .
30 And , a a I mean I think we have , you know , to be feminists because we do n't want to be better than men , we just want to be equal .
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