Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 2 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 3 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
| 4 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 5 | I only want to be taught . |
| 6 | I just want to be comfortable . |
| 7 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 9 | Certainly I have had it said to me by grieving , often very elderly , people : ‘ There 's nothing left for me now , I just want to be with my husband . |
| 10 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 11 | I just want to be treated honestly and know if I am part of Chelsea 's plans . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I just want to be there but , if the worst comes to the worst , the squad is strong enough to win . ’ |
| 14 | One night , after heavy drinking in Soho Minton turned up at the house where they were living , broke a window , and climbed in , saying , ‘ I just want to be part of you . ’ |
| 15 | Because I just want to be sure . |
| 16 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 18 | I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’ |
| 19 | I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’ |
| 20 | " I just want to , that 's all . " |
| 21 | I just want to — ’ |
| 22 | I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’ |
| 23 | I just want to be left in peace , I need time … ’ |
| 24 | I just want to be left alone ! ’ |
| 25 | I just want to you to get yourselves comfortable during this time . |
| 26 | Deep down , I suppose I just want to be wanted . |
| 27 | I just want to be left alone . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I just want to you know modern days was just confusing me and er , all this sort of thing . |
| 30 | And what I 'm saying is that we make less cracker but with the advertising we 're doing doing at the moment , in the magazine and Yellow Pages and I just want to kind I 'm going to talk to you about what other ways of advertising . |