Example sentences of "i [adv] want to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 2 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 3 | I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules . |
| 4 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure … |
| 6 | I just wanted to be sure you were n't trying to pull a fast one on me . ’ |
| 7 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because I just want to be sure . |
| 11 | ‘ I just want to be sure that there 'll be one stupid incompetent fuck less in the world ! ’ |
| 12 | I just want to be sure that your friend is prepared . ’ |
| 13 | I just want to be sure that you 've told me all you know . ’ |
| 14 | I just want to be alone , so if you do n't mind … ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 16 | I just want to be able to say I 've done it , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yeah I just want to be clear on wh |
| 19 | I do n't intend to push myself , I just want to be ready . ’ |
| 20 | I just want to be comfortable . |
| 21 | ‘ I was not the great campaigning journalist , but I always wanted to be able to give facts , be they favourable or unfavourable to the authorities . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm sorry but I , I want to be fair to everybody , yeah and I also want to be fair to the debate that 's still to come later this afternoon , but I 've called for questions and I 'd like everybody to start their statement with the question which they 're going to put to the convenor . |
| 23 | I really want to be successful . ’ |
| 24 | I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long . |
| 25 | And I then want to be able to collect information on sources of pollution around their sites , if they notice particularly busy roads , things like that . |
| 26 | I actually wanted to be upset again . ’ |