Example sentences of "thing i [modal v] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | My child , the parent says in effect , is , or should be , achieving — or aggressive or sophisticated or " nice " — just the things I would want to be . |
| 2 | The last thing I would want to do is be unkind to people who have given me an extremely successful show . |
| 3 | THE last thing I would want to see and hear over my corn flakes is Anne Diamond , lovely though she is , presenting syrupy , romantic drivel written by Dame Barbara Cartland . |
| 4 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , after my travails upon this sad world are done , the last thing I would want is to view eternity from the inside of a bottle . ’ |
| 6 | The last thing I would want to have to sell to my constituents is the idea that they should go into that bloody mess and be shot at by the bandits on both sides . |
| 7 | I if I was a building the last thing I would want would be people gawping at me . |