Example sentences of "want know [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One other thing they 'll want to know is the real reason why Sara was in father 's office at just after six this morning . ’ |
| 2 | d you do n't have to be that specific , you 'd , really you 'd want to know is it erm |
| 3 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 4 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 5 | No , what I want to know is whether the US is gripped by a wave of fear of the Japanese . |
| 6 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 7 | What I want to know is , is it cold or hot ? |
| 8 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 9 | ‘ What I want to know is who 's in the team ? ’ asks a gruff voice . |
| 10 | What you want to know is : |
| 11 | All they want to know is : am I going to get a good bottom turn ? ’ |
| 12 | What I want to know is where has she gone ? |
| 13 | All I want to know is , will he be all right ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What I want to know is , why ca n't they carry on decently , like we used to do ? ’ |
| 15 | What we want to know is how to use that assertiveness in situations where we do n't know the rules . ’ |
| 16 | And all I want to know is which television series featured Under Siege co-star Erika Eleniak ? |
| 17 | He branded the portrait ‘ quite disgusting , pure chocolate box rubbish ’ and scoffed : ‘ What I want to know is , where are the Seven Dwarfs ? |
| 18 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’ |
| 19 | This is because the method poses what may be a false question , ‘ is this structure necessary for the process I am studying ? ’ , when what we really want to know is ‘ what part does this structure play in the process I am studying ? ’ |
| 20 | What most managers want to know is how they should juggle what Mr Stark calls the ‘ confusing mix of self-interest , altruism and other influences ’ that make their businesses tick . |
| 21 | What I want to know is Andie MacDowell 's telephone number ( get your hands out of your pockets , Corky — Ed ) . |
| 22 | All we want to know is what happened to the cargo . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ All I want to know is what you think you 're playing at ! ’ |
| 24 | " What I want to know is why there 's all this talk of marriage all of a sudden ? " |
| 25 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's wrong with us and our galaxy ? |
| 26 | What I want to know is : how long will he last ? |
| 27 | What I want to know is : who did you tell ? |
| 28 | Because what we what we want to know is is those jobs where we have done well , because we can learn the bollocking lessons from them . |
| 29 | ‘ What I want to know is where God 's supposed to be . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ All I want to know is , if such a substitution was made would you have noticed it ? ’ |