Example sentences of "i want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a truth I want to re-assert today with confidence and conviction . |
| 2 | I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste . |
| 3 | Therefore I want to beg all your forgiveness for every injustice , suffering and humiliation which you , on the Czech side suffered at our hands ’ . |
| 4 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 5 | I want to forgive you ! |
| 6 | I must mention one member — Angela ( nee Feetenby ) — for her help to me has been second to none — not only do I congratulate her for that but on your behalf I want to wish her every happiness in her new life — she was married last July to Harry Bell . |
| 7 | I want to wish him season 's greetings . ’ |
| 8 | I know that plans are well advanced throughout the country for a massive collecting effort next year and I want to wish all of you involved all the very best in your efforts as we approach these days , that 's to say donation days , in the coming year . |
| 9 | No I want to post something through ! |
| 10 | I want pops . |
| 11 | Come on I want pops , I want pops ah I want pops pops . |
| 12 | Come on I want pops , I want pops ah I want pops pops . |
| 13 | Come on I want pops , I want pops ah I want pops pops . |
| 14 | Want erm I want pops again I want pops again . |
| 15 | Want erm I want pops again I want pops again . |
| 16 | Now that my South African ban has been lifted , I want to reclaim the No 1 spot I gave up in 1989 and it will be interesting to see how Tuffers reacts to the challenge . |
| 17 | I want to reclaim it — so I can stop being a casualty of this war that has no name . |
| 18 | I want to enjoy it while it is here , but I have some aspirations … like shops , ’ says Kylie , who yearns to own a string of ‘ green ’ shops . |
| 19 | This is because I want to enjoy my children 's early years . |
| 20 | However , she does concede , " I feel as though I want to enjoy it . " |
| 21 | I want to enjoy life when I retire . |
| 22 | I want to enjoy life while I can . |
| 23 | ‘ Above all , I want to enjoy myself , ’ Hill added . |
| 24 | Whereas the slimmer 's reads , ‘ I want to be a sexually attractive woman ’ , the anorexic 's reads , ‘ I want to shed the burden of womanhood ’ . |
| 25 | I want to shut out the noise . |
| 26 | Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm worn out with eating , ’ he said , ‘ I want to sit on your lap while you tell us a story . |
| 28 | When I 'm old I want to sit and drink my wine with them in peace ( poor Simon ) . |
| 29 | But I want to sit next to you , wife . |
| 30 | I want to sit down . ’ |