Example sentences of "but what i want " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 2 | ‘ But what I want is a bit of time to myself . |
| 3 | ‘ Statistics are all very well and good , but what I want is the human angle . |
| 4 | But what I want 's |
| 5 | But what I want to draw attention to here is the failure to understand that past social beliefs were formed within the context of false beliefs about the biological relation of woman and man . |
| 6 | And these are all re really valid but what I want to do now is start looking more into how a visitor actually thinks . |
| 7 | I can distrain them damage feasant , but what I want to do is to get rid of them and I am certainly not bound to incur the expense of packing and returning them . |
| 8 | But what I want the Hearts Mid-Lothian supporters to know is that if we do n't go to Hermestone , it is highly likely we 'll be remaining at Tynecastle , and we could put together a very attractive proposal there . |
| 9 | Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence . |
| 10 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | " That 's for you to say , but what I want to know is , how do you get on without him ? |
| 12 | ‘ There are more Senior tournaments in the pipeline , but what I want to see are more National Open championships . |
| 13 | But what I want to echo is what Elean said about respecting each others work and respecting each others visions . |
| 14 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 15 | ‘ But what I want to know is , when do I get a crack at the Huns ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You should n't be surprised by that , but what I want to know is : did the shop come as a surprise to him ? ’ |
| 17 | I do n't want to go to the bank but what I want to do is to go to erm |
| 18 | But what I want you to do is gather information , this is your answers , and match what you 're doing er , what we sa provide with what you found out then . |
| 19 | ‘ But what I wanted to ask Denis was , what did he mean by saying we were n't children any more ? ’ |
| 20 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 21 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 22 | Erm , but what I wanted us to do is to start getting some discussion going and , so that you 're actually getting a bit closer to one another . |
| 23 | And there is no one single picture of English history which is absolutely right , in other words there are different interpretations of almost everything that matters in history , but what I wanted to try to do in that social history was to give some account of England 's past which was meaningful to people living in the late erm twentieth century . |