Example sentences of "[that] i want [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can explain to her why I rushed off , that I want to give her time to think things over without me around to distract her . |
| 2 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know why ; only that I want to hear my voice on the answerphone . |
| 4 | I would tell them that I wanted to record their accents for a research project . |
| 5 | I explained that I wanted to see her father on a matter of business , but that his office had been unable to tell me where he was , and that I could get no reply by telephoning his home . |
| 6 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 7 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |