Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 2 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 3 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 4 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
| 5 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 6 | I only want to be taught . |
| 7 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 8 | I mean I know it 's stupid er I just wanted to and there 's no hurry at all for it and if you 'd rather go somewhere else now |
| 9 | I just wanted to be a poet . ’ |
| 10 | I just wanted to come to you , to make a little space around you , I do n't want to discuss anything , I do n't want to do anything , I wo n't say anything , I just wanted to be there , I mean here . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't want to be a superstar , I just wanted to be able to play well . |
| 12 | At the time I just wanted to be left alone , but now I 'm glad he pressured me into doing more talks . |
| 13 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 14 | ‘ I just wanted to you know I 've been thinking of you . ’ |
| 15 | I just wanted to be sure you understood our house rules . |
| 16 | ‘ I just wanted to . |
| 17 | I just wanted to be with you . ’ |
| 18 | I just wanted to φ that . |
| 19 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure you had an alibi . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I just wanted to be sure … |
| 21 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 22 | I just wanted to be sure you were n't trying to pull a fast one on me . ’ |
| 23 | I just wanted to erm pick up on a couple of points that er people have made in the course of a and responses I think to my er opening statement . |
| 24 | Erm Mr Davis referred to N Y one erm in his er statement there , in the interests of saving paper I just wanted to er to state that it is included as appendix one |
| 25 | I want at least five and I just wanted to erm establish that with one or two other people who er presently attend the tourism meetings are invited as required , rather than to every meeting . |
| 26 | Okay , I just wanted to be clear we were n't finding an additional list of names of people who are authorised to do this . |
| 27 | I just wanted to s revenge for it was supposed to be a fight for me , but I was really angry when he killed my friend so I wanted to revenge Tybaot and suddenly I killed him . |
| 28 | I just wanted to actually sort of mention it to so that he knows cos he 's obviously invited to come if he wants |
| 29 | I just wanted to s erm congratulate er whoever it was and put together the curriculum er programme which secured the three quarters of a million pound for all those which will I , I think I can understand extremely competitive and I would like to erm give credit to there because that will be enormously for the business which will give proper jobs er which is er very useful to the environment and , and , and really just to record erm that , that particular er success . |
| 30 | Thank you sir erm in that the government and the opposition front bench want to move this measure erm fulfilling their commitments to the Maastricht treaty , I accept the methodology and the precedent that the government cites , I think that 's appropriate , erm I just wanted to very briefly say that this is of course a vote no longer like the generality of the population voting for the membership of a golf club in which we have varying degrees of er interest . |