Example sentences of "i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 2 | But now I want to win and win and win. , Salim , too , wants to win , and his affair with Yvette is a victory : All my energy and mind were devoted to that new end of winning the person . ’ |
| 3 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 4 | I 've seen the places I want . |
| 5 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 6 | I used to watch television and think ‘ I want to do that ’ . |
| 7 | Without the materials , he wrote , without the paints and the brushes , the pencils and the paper , above all without the panels of glass , there could have been no beginning , and I want to record here , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that there was a beginning , at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 27 July 1967 . |
| 8 | I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be . |
| 9 | I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be . |
| 10 | I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be . |
| 11 | Time will only enter where I want it , wrote Harsnet . |
| 12 | I want to pick up and put down , he wrote , not spread out in gooey mass . |
| 13 | Tried projecting negative of Bride from holograph enlarger , he wrote , but image thin and weak where I want it strong ( though indeterminate ) . |
| 14 | Will really yield what I want it to . |
| 15 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 16 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 17 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 18 | I want my doubts to play and dance . |
| 19 | That 's what I want to know . |
| 20 | I want it out of the house , he wrote . |
| 21 | I realize now that that is what I want more than anything else . |
| 22 | All I want is to get it out of the flat , I said . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to give the people who use my houses a rare and primitive relationship with the raw forces of nature . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's going to kill me , ’ I said , ‘ and I want to change sides . ’ |
| 25 | I want an answer , right now ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That 's why I want to get out of it . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 28 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 29 | ‘ There are a few details I want to clear up with the other girls , ’ she told me . |
| 30 | I want to discuss this with my superiors , but I think it 's only fair for me to say that it may well be difficult for us to keep you here . ’ |