Example sentences of "[conj] i want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 2 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 3 | I grew up pretty much as everybody else grows up and one day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself — I ca n't live where I want to — I ca n't go where I want to — I ca n't do what I want to — I ca n't even day what I want to . |
| 4 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 5 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not that I want to be the ideal woman ; I 'd simply like to be able to walk down a street and not even think about it . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not that I want to be away from here , ’ Eve said earnestly . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't think I have much else to prove … other than that I want to be the best player in the world . |
| 9 | into the field that I want to be in you know I do n't think it 's possible to just walk straight in unless you 're very lucky . |
| 10 | I 'm not proud , it 's just that I want to be in the right place . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think , ’ said Melanie , ‘ that I want to be Leda . ’ |
| 12 | I shall say I feel differently towards him , that I want to be his friend and lameduck him in London . |
| 13 | ‘ Not that I want to , miserable bugger . ’ |
| 14 | As I I love being a candidate , I love talking to voters , I like being active and doing things and that 's the reason basically that I want to be your Euro candidate , I 'm ready to be a candidate again . |
| 15 | I could n't do that , not that I want to . |
| 16 | ‘ The point is that I want to be near you . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't , not that I want to . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm gon na do that I want to be free . |
| 20 | In fact I found Shakespeare very difficult to get on with and was n't at all sure that I wanted to . |
| 21 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 22 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 23 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 24 | Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus Christ — whoever He was . |
| 25 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 26 | When I saw that I wanted to be him , or one of them , or both of them , but anyway I was just so happy to watch them together . |
| 27 | ‘ I used to think that I wanted to be a lawyer when I was a little kid ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ At it 's worst I just felt that I could n't go anywhere that I wanted to . |
| 29 | And anyway , I was so overwhelmed by her mother , who was so sweet to me , that I wanted to be her friend . |
| 30 | At age seven I decided that I wanted to be a soldier , after I had watched a TV programme about the D-Day landings . |