Example sentences of "want to do [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 2 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 3 | All these people want to do is hit someone before the lights go out . |
| 4 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 5 | ‘ All I want to do is to do what I 'm doing , but do it better . ’ |
| 6 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 7 | What you want to do is find who killed him . ’ |
| 8 | All I want to do is get out . |
| 9 | What I want to do is be part of something that does . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ All I want to do is claim what is rightfully mine and ensure the wishes of my brother are carried out . |
| 11 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 12 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 13 | All I want to do is read Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals instead of cleaning the oven , then pop over to see Tony now and again . |
| 14 | WHEN London friends come and spend the day with me in Hastings , the first thing they all want to do is sample the fish and chips . |
| 15 | That first holiday away is a magical occasion , and the last thing you want to do is share the magic with a hotel load of families and grannies . |
| 16 | But if all you want to do is sit in the gardens or laze by the pool , they will allow it ! |
| 17 | The great thing about this holiday club is if all you want to do is laze about in the sun , they 'll let you . |
| 18 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm anti clique and what I want to do is open every opportunity and every door , my hesitation in talking to you , is that I have n't figured out how to open all the doors . ’ |
| 20 | City shopkeepers thought this would be disastrous as the last thing that people cooped up in offices all day want to do is to plunge underground when at last they have a chance to get out in the fresh air . |
| 21 | There are days when some of our residents are quite determined that you are going to enable them to do what they want to do , even though what they want to do is completely ridiculous , like going out in the rain without a coat on . |
| 22 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 23 | ‘ No , Dad , what I want to do is to fuck . ’ ’ |
| 24 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 25 | All I want to do is finish the London under 4:20 , perhaps with some help from your magazine . |
| 26 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 27 | I knew what I was doing and knew that it was wrong — but when you 're 14 , everything you want to do is wrong . |
| 28 | Assurance that you are primarily interested in how they feel , what they want , and what they want to do is important in this respect . |
| 29 | What we want to do is to calculate the stress which will just separate two adjacent layers of atoms inside the material . |
| 30 | ‘ All I want to do is hurry home and cuddle them . ’ |