Example sentences of "[conj] that [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easy for us to be friendly and kind to people that we think highly of or that we want to impress . |
| 2 | or or that we want to leave some of these out . |
| 3 | She was n't sure that she could offer the same kind of commitment in return , or that she wanted so much responsibility . |
| 4 | She loved Piers , and it just was n't good enough to be told that he needed her or that he wanted her . |
| 5 | ‘ I was , frankly , surprised , but did n't take very long to make up my mind that this was not an invitation you could refuse … or that I wanted to refuse . ’ |
| 6 | And also I used to notice that there were quite a lot of em empty window , you know , in the flats , and erm you know I just got a feeling that this was really where I I found that I would be able to work , or that I wanted to work . |
| 7 | They embraced briefly and I heard her say quietly , ‘ Remember I shall always love you and if there 's anything I can do or that you want , do n't be afraid to come to me . ’ |
| 8 | Do you ever feel that life is getting on top of you or that you want to run away from the demands made on you by career or family ? |
| 9 | Well , that was because — but , try as she could , there seemed to be no other reason except that he wanted to . |
| 10 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 11 | " I really have n't any particular interest in the sale , except that I want to do the best that I can for this retired artist , Sam Mills , " he said . |
| 12 | You are hurt , I know , and unable to believe in any man 's decency , but try to believe that whatever happened to you I still love you ; you have not changed for me , it makes no difference , no difference whatsoever — except that I want to kill the man who hurt you . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't know why we 're different except that someone wants to makes some trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 15 | Other than that I want to make just three comments on three important issues which have been raised . |
| 16 | I wanted to light a cigarette , but more than that I wanted not to distract him ; his reaching back . |
| 17 | As he has said ‘ the man who throws a race is a crook for life ’ , it is fair to guess that Melges ' ’ day off ’ was for no other reason than that he wanted no part of any manipulation of points . |
| 18 | We simply had to tell Mazzin that his treatment of us and particularly of Frank was unacceptable to us and that we wanted to speak to his chef . |
| 19 | Now we 're conscious that there are a number of desktop devices available to us today and I 'll go into these a little bit more in a moment , and that we want to support concurrent users of many different type of device . |
| 20 | The headteacher say , ‘ Evidence showed that our community did value the work we do , that they want to know more about what we can offer and that they want to play an active part in their children 's pre-school experience . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've since had quite a number of first division chairmen clearly indicating they did not consider it a final offer and that they want this thing settled , ’ said Taylor . |
| 22 | Both Brazilians say they are happy away from the pressures of a big club and that they want to stay . |
| 23 | you know for a line and that they want , you have |
| 24 | Apparently Naud has discovered that there about ‘ 1700 semi-mounted ploughs sold in the UK ’ , presumably annually , and that they wanted to be a big part of that market . |
| 25 | ‘ They said the conditions were the same for all teams and that they wanted to stay on and entertain the crowd ’ , said Sevens rules committee chairman Dave Crosbie . |
| 26 | It is not far-fetched to say , as Charles Moskos of Northwestern University argues , that campaigners for gays in the ranks wanted to use the armed forces as a social-engineering experiment ; and that they wanted to impose their values on a supposedly irredentist segment of American society . |
| 27 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 28 | And that I wanted all sorts of things from London . |
| 29 | I told Sir Henry about Laura Lyons , and that I wanted to speak to her as soon as possible . |
| 30 | And that I want to get together with him again now ? ’ |