Example sentences of "[pron] just wanted to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wanted to be a poet . ’ |
| 2 | I just wanted to come to you , to make a little space around you , I do n't want to discuss anything , I do n't want to do anything , I wo n't say anything , I just wanted to be there , I mean here . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well . |
| 4 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 5 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wanted to you know I 've been thinking of you . ’ |
| 7 | I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules . |
| 8 | ‘ I just wanted to . |
| 9 | I just wanted to be with you . ’ |
| 10 | I just wanted to φ that . |
| 11 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure … |
| 13 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 14 | I just wanted to be sure you were n't trying to pull a fast one on me . ’ |
| 15 | I just wanted to erm pick up on a couple of points that er people have made in the course of a and responses I think to my er opening statement . |
| 16 | Erm Mr Davis referred to N Y one erm in his er statement there , in the interests of saving paper I just wanted to er to state that it is included as appendix one |
| 17 | I want at least five and I just wanted to erm establish that with one or two other people who er presently attend the tourism meetings are invited as required , rather than to every meeting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I just wanted to s revenge for it was supposed to be a fight for me , but I was really angry when he killed my friend so I wanted to revenge Tybaot and suddenly I killed him . |
| 20 | I just wanted to actually sort of mention it to so that he knows cos he 's obviously invited to come if he wants |
| 21 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 22 | Thank you sir erm in that the government and the opposition front bench want to move this measure erm fulfilling their commitments to the Maastricht treaty , I accept the methodology and the precedent that the government cites , I think that 's appropriate , erm I just wanted to very briefly say that this is of course a vote no longer like the generality of the population voting for the membership of a golf club in which we have varying degrees of er interest . |
| 23 | I just wanted to actually , you know , |
| 24 | It was about elderly people I just wanted to be properly cared for . |
| 25 | I nearly I 'm lacking indoors , I 'm very lacking indoors I nearly lay down last night but I knew I just wanted to be |
| 26 | he made a joke about a blonde you see just before that , anyway and I said I just wanted to , do you know who is on so he said oh he thinks is on and that must be the from |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said somebody drunk who just wanted to be nasty , ‘ you tell her . |
| 28 | She just wanted to be free of the burden of her own special powers . |
| 29 | Aubrey was probably right — she just wanted to be able to number him among her many admirers . |
| 30 | She just wanted to be on her own so that the lava of tears could flow unchecked , melt it all away . |