Example sentences of "i want to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know what it 's like in there and I 'm not sure it 's a place I want to be . ’ |
| 2 | I want to be In Love . |
| 3 | I want to be your lover . |
| 4 | ‘ And I 'll mess up my own life if I want to , that 's not your problem . |
| 5 | I want to be honest . |
| 6 | Lady , I want to your lover . ’ |
| 7 | Before going on to analyse the kinds of blocking technique one might nevertheless use , I want to briefly explain what I mean by the terms ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ sides when referring to a stance . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to be the best ’ she explains proudly , ‘ it does n't matter how long it takes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Margaret Thatcher shows that she is from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy : ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I want to be alone . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Chapman said : ‘ I have usually got on well with newspaper proprietors , but this time I want to be in charge . ’ |
| 12 | From the other side of the wafer-thin wall between Odeon One and Two comes the voice of The Jungle Book 's Baloo : ‘ I want to talk like you , walk like you , I want to be like you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want to be in your place ’ collapses temporarily into ‘ I want you ’ ; identification merges with desire , which is then a desire to be/displace the male as other . |
| 14 | I want to be a gardener . |
| 15 | But I want to be . |
| 16 | After a pause they thought would never end they heard , ‘ I want to be alone , ’ clear as a single bell note , free of all self-assertiveness . |
| 17 | I want to be a social worker so I could do something for these girls . ’ |
| 18 | It is just that I want to be free . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't want no one else to look after him — I want to . |
| 20 | They ca n't feel me cos they do n't know I 'm there , and if I want to I can fly over their heads and leave them behind and live in the sky . |
| 21 | I want to be able to write to you again — soon — and tell you how our projects are developing — not just in Vietnam , but across the world . |
| 22 | I want to be involved in the growth of something . |
| 23 | While Benjamin Dale , the composer , or Leigh Henry , the critic , lectured on Stravinsky and Schoenberg ( in 1915 ! ) , two companies of music-hall artists competed with Legs and the Woman ( the title after Shaw … ) and with the camp 's first ragtime chorus in drag : Down in Ruhleben , there I want to be , Four thousand boys would be enough for me ! |
| 24 | December I want to be the longest-serving manager under Peter Swales . |
| 25 | In other words , I want to be loved . |
| 26 | All simple & partly lovely women attract me , & not merely attract me , but I want to be something to them . |
| 27 | ‘ Look I 've not got long , and I want to — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Please , Mrs H , I want to be here , stay with you . |
| 29 | I want to be a cadet officer in the Guards — Grenadiers , Coldstream sort of thing . |
| 30 | ‘ … and I want to … explain . ’ |