Example sentences of "want know [adv] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Do n't you want to know why I did ? " |
| 2 | Do you want to know why I 'm wearing two pairs of knickers because |
| 3 | ‘ Do you want to know where I went ? ’ |
| 4 | After a bit , he said , he would want to know where I came from and all . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , do you want to know how I really caught it ? ’ |
| 6 | Horror writer Stephen King on the secret of his success : ‘ People want to know why I write such gross stuff . |
| 7 | ‘ Yet now , all of a sudden , you want to know why I think it 's so important . |
| 8 | As Maxine Waters , the US congresswoman for South Central put it , in a sermon in the First American Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday , ‘ People want to know why I 'm not saying exactly what they want me to say . |
| 9 | They want to know why I 'm drinking Diet Coke . |
| 10 | I want to know why I 'm being victimised against . " |
| 11 | ‘ You and Daddy always want to know where I 'm going , what I 'm doing , who I 'm with . |
| 12 | ‘ My parents have been pestered by people who want to know when I am coming home , ’ she said . |
| 13 | But I expect that you all want to know how I could do it — how I could have walked in and scooped up this yummy young man from the arms of his loving and lawful wife . |
| 14 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 15 | If you want to know how I could tell that from the seventh floor , you have to remember I 'm supposed to be a detective . |
| 16 | If you want to know how I , and , incidentally , Joanna , are so sure that you and Robert love each other … well , it 's in your eyes when you talk to him , in the way he tenses up when he sees you — there 's a magnetism between you that is almost visible . ’ |
| 17 | Oh well if he wants to know why I 'm there and me are you off sick I shall just show him a I 've got proof that I 've been off sick . |
| 18 | ‘ She wants to know when I 'm going back . ’ |
| 19 | It 's such a bore the way she always wants to know where I am and what I 'm doing . ’ |
| 20 | He wants to know how I discovered the Old Rectory . |
| 21 | I did n't wan na go the hospital 'cos they 'd have wanted to know how I did it and I would have had to turkey in there . |
| 22 | Otley wanted to know when I got home . |
| 23 | He wanted to know when I last saw Mom . ’ |
| 24 | He wanted to know why I was flashing the light . |
| 25 | ’ Now he wanted to know why I was n't at the point . |
| 26 | ‘ I wanted to know why I could n't have children and what was wrong with me , rather than talk to other people who could n't . ’ |
| 27 | Dr Mortimer wanted to know why I was asking about Mrs Lyons . |
| 28 | I rang my mum and she wanted to know where I was and where Natasha was . |
| 29 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 30 | He wanted to know how I knew that they were nine miles towards Mali and seemed to be bothered that I was only guessing . |