Example sentences of "[pers pn] want to hear " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to hear what the doctor has to say . |
| 2 | I pay , for I want to hear more of Elena 's story , to compare it with what I learned earlier in the evening . |
| 3 | But if I want to hear the long , late-night groove on side two , I have to play the album . |
| 4 | And I want to hear more about the kissing and canoodling . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Peace ’ is a fragile word , but the King has said — ‘ I want to hear the tracks of bulldozers , not tanks … the footsteps of travellers , not troops . ’ |
| 6 | If I want to hear about politics , I 'll go out and vote . |
| 7 | I want to hear politicians talk about taxing the polluter , cutting energy , improving public transport , creating way for the disabled to travel easily and getting freight off the roads . |
| 8 | I want to hear them discuss how they will bring an end to all forms of intensive animal farming , ban bloodsports , end testing on animals , stop animals being used in circuses , ban imports of fur products and end this disgraceful trade . |
| 9 | I want to hear how politicians plan to remove all nuclear weapons now that we know from experience — following the Gulf War — that nuclear weapons are not a deterrent . |
| 10 | I want to hear all about Pinehurst . ’ |
| 11 | Say them now for I want to hear them . |
| 12 | If I 'm in an audience I want to hear the solo on the record and see the guy pull it off live . |
| 13 | I want to hear what you 've got to say now 'cos at the moment it 's hard enough listening to your gems to even contemplate buying what 's spouting out of your Arsenal . |
| 14 | And if I want to hear inane rat-tat-tats I 'll go to the jungle and listen to the crickets . |
| 15 | I answered her look with as much affection in my own expression as I could muster and added , ‘ But I want to hear , my lady , tawil omrich . |
| 16 | I want to hear , my friend . ’ |
| 17 | But I want to hear it all . |
| 18 | And I want to hear it from you . |
| 19 | This is not what I want to hear from the man who once shook me to the core with a string of incendiary albums . |
| 20 | I want to hear all about it . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , perhaps I want to hear . ’ |
| 22 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 23 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 24 | In future , however , I suspect it will be to this fine disc that I shall be looking when I want to hear this sunny and enchanting score . |
| 25 | ‘ You got anything I want to hear ? ’ |
| 26 | And I go out there because I want to hear ‘ God Save the Queen . ’ |
| 27 | I want to hear the evidence . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ More than I want to hear . ’ |
| 29 | Of course I want to hear it all . ’ |
| 30 | But never mind about me — I want to hear about you ! |