Example sentences of "only want to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
| 2 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 3 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 4 | The business constituency not only wants to be as little burdened as possible with the costs of complying with regulation , it is also critical of what it sees as inordinate amounts of money being spent on pollution control by bloated , publicly-funded organizations . |
| 5 | ‘ Dana is n't really a man-eater ; she only wants to be happy . ’ |
| 6 | Death only wants to be life . |
| 7 | I should be quite content , I thought , to live here for ever , smelling the cooking and the lavatory and the dust , looking forward to my two slices of bread at lunch or tea and my Red Cross stew at supper , thinking about all the books I am going to read and how nice it is going to be when I can speak German and Russian fluently ; I only want to be allowed to live , and enjoy the sun when it shines , and wait for it when it goes behind a cloud . |
| 8 | I only want to be with Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben . |
| 9 | I think we only want to be on the mainframe so that the divisions can access details in the middle of the night . |
| 10 | He 's only said these things , sort of , trying out to see because he does n't he does n't know if very much , oh it 's so sad Brenda , he said to me we were talking on Wednesday night , I think and he looked wistfully at me and he said I only want to be taught . |
| 11 | I only want to be taught . |
| 12 | I mean , deserving cases like Neil who as he says only want to be taught , get next to nothing , but it seems to me that people like your sister Jane and Trevor get given the earth . |
| 13 | Alida Thorne wiped away the tears with the back of her soft hand , only wanting to be taken to bed , like a child , and soothed , to have someone decide and make arrangements , tell her that all would be well , she should have her way . |
| 14 | I 'd only wanted to be alone ! |
| 15 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 16 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |