Example sentences of "[adj] that i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
| 2 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 3 | The attitude of the companies is such that I want nothing to do with them ; I like to think we will survive without ruining the lives of the animals and destroying the land . ’ |
| 4 | Do I really hate my life or myself so much that I want to die ? |
| 5 | ‘ Cricket gave me so much that I want to put something back into the game and teaching the youngsters how to play is a rewarding way of doing it . |
| 6 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 7 | If I start accepting funds from the government , people will lose that charitable ideal that I want to leave behind me when I 'm gone . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Not sure that I want the Americans , fairly certain I want their dollars . ' |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I want any , ’ she said and inside her skull her hoarse voice grated against the pain . |
| 10 | I 'm not sure that I want to share that with a family magazine ! |
| 11 | ‘ No — and I 'm not a hundred per cent sure that I want to start , Luke . |
| 12 | They are warm and but it 's colour I do n't know whether I perhaps if I saw cream again this year I might buy it but erm I 'm not sure that I want to when this deep orangy colour . |
| 13 | they are warm , er , but its colour , I do n't know whether I perhaps I , if I saw cream again this year I might buy it , but erm , I 'm not sure that I want erm there 's this deep red , because I 've , I 've bought a red one in a different style , same sort of fabric , its very do you remember ? , when I bought that black and white checked skirt I bought a red |
| 14 | In fact I found Shakespeare very difficult to get on with and was n't at all sure that I wanted to . |
| 15 | I assured her that I would definitely not change my mind and that I was sure that I wanted to do it . |
| 16 | Do you honestly think your company 's so scintillating that I want to spend still more time in it ? ’ |
| 17 | I began to calm down but for all that I wanted ! him to get the message . |
| 18 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |
| 19 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's something very practical that I want to ask you , ’ he said gently . |
| 21 | At times he was so dogmatic that I wanted to laugh , to behave in the traditionally xenophobic , continentals-despising way of my race ; at times , rather against my will , he impressed me — not only as a rich man with some enviable works of art in his house . |
| 22 | I underpainted some details in red that I wanted to see through it . |
| 23 | I 've told Dizzy that I want the whole works , and I do n't care what it costs him . ’ |
| 24 | Well , actually there are lots , but there 's one in particular that I want to talk about . |
| 25 | He was appalled that I wanted to study English and history , both of which he thought not only pointless but a danger to my identity . |
| 26 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |