Example sentences of "[noun sg] i want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 2 | Mum I want to cuddled ! |
| 3 | ‘ This is the kind of acting part I want to be offered in future . |
| 4 | If you 'd like to just hang on a second I want to this little . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 6 | Sport I want to be a football manager . |
| 7 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 8 | This is the last place I want to be and I 'm not at all interested in your background . |
| 9 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 10 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 11 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 12 | Right , and er , the third point I want to is that , you , what you 're actually getting consist of two elements . |
| 13 | I told you , some day I want to be a designer , and — ’ |
| 14 | Why ca n't I ever behave like the person I want to be ? |
| 15 | You 're the last person I want to be near , Mr Wyatt . ’ |
| 16 | On the training ground I want to be just another player . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Sir , In reply to your letter received this morning I want to no how ever you think i can pay 4s. a week towards my Father . |
| 18 | and well I 've , I 've had a sort of split feeling I wanted to be here |
| 19 | ‘ The last thing I want to be seen as is a feminist agitator . |
| 20 | I know I am being stupid and the last thing I want to be is a possessive mother . |
| 21 | ‘ I was under pressure from my grandfather to become a teacher and that 's the last thing I wanted to be . |
| 22 | The one thing I wanted to erm bring up in this meeting , |
| 23 | And that 's when my life changed , that 's when I was let into the world I wanted to be in and got paid to do something creative , which I 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ An example : the Dalek city I wanted to be a complex structure of low metal towers , ramps and spires , quite detailed , possibly with some kind of perimeter wall or fence surrounding it . |
| 25 | When I got out of high school I wanted to be a caddie , so I got some bags at my local club . |
| 26 | I 'm not going to stop dressing the way I want to just because they do n't like it , but it 's discouraging . |
| 27 | If I work the way I want to , what will the teacher think who takes them next year ? |
| 28 | I ca n't make love to you the way I want to — not here . |
| 29 | On the other hand I 'm not a ballet choreographer , so I 'm going to enjoy this process and move the way I want to and try to teach them what I do and why I do it . ’ |
| 30 | So I said well , that 's like this Pete , you live the way you want to and I 'll live the way I want to , I said it 's immaterial to me . |