Example sentences of "really want to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must really want to be doing something else but you wo n't let yourself admit it . ’ |
| 2 | Of course he does n't really want to be alone . |
| 3 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |
| 4 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 5 | And when I asked his orchestra 's publicist if Daniel Barenboim would really want to be interviewed immediately after such a lengthy spell of high-altitude incarceration , she said : ‘ He came in by Concorde , he 's just been on a two-week skiing trip with his family in Switzerland — believe me , he 'll be just fine . ’ |
| 6 | Even after that , they still seemed to be completely bewildered , and kept repeating , ‘ But you do n't really want to be alone , do you ? ’ |
| 7 | We did put one more record together with Bob Clearmountain , ‘ Into The Fire ’ , and that 's when I said , ‘ That 's it , I do n't really want to be hands-on any more . ' ’ |
| 8 | Does the speaker really want to be known as ‘ poor Nell , such an incompetent twit ’ . |
| 9 | I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker . |
| 10 | I 'm sure that 's why so many people compromise and end up in relationships which they do n't really want to be in . |
| 11 | He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler . |
| 12 | It had to be done through the American Consulate at Marseilles , sixty miles there and back , she was away most of the day ; I was glad of that too , we did n't really want to be alone with each other just then . |
| 13 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 14 | Tracy was persuaded , but as time went on , decided she did n't really want to be with him , so she left him . |
| 15 | The only thing is , I did n't really want to be a tailoress , I wanted to be a nurse , but had n't much choice , then . |
| 16 | Did I really want to be left in Danu without a protector ? |
| 17 | Does the BBC really want to be inhumane ? |
| 18 | Yet does a patient really want to be on medication all his life ? |
| 19 | I do n't really want to be cope with Deborah and Catherine the day Clare goes off to Isle of Wight do we ? |
| 20 | Meryl Streep is wonderfully comic as an actress who really wants to be a singer , while Shirley Maclaine shows her versatility and talent as she defiantly crashes through ‘ I 'm Still Here ’ . |
| 21 | Do you think that each lot really wants to be the other lot ? |
| 22 | He thinks about whether he really wants to be doing this with his life at all . |
| 23 | But to be more than a failed one-term president , he must be driven by these brickbats to decide what kind of president — indeed , what kind of man — he really wants to be . |
| 24 | Acer America Corporation , which really wants to be a player in the reconstituted ‘ minicomputer ’ market , will be busy this week shoring up its defences at the low end . |
| 25 | It really wants to be one without the roads marked . |
| 26 | I wonder if she really wants to be out of bed this morning , talking to a couple of lunatics , or not . |
| 27 | Yeah , it really wants to be all written down so you can read it off do n't it ? |
| 28 | If you really want to be energetic , there 's windsurfing and waterskiing here or you can stroll along the beach to where they still make wooden Turkish boats by hand . |
| 29 | Do n't lose your balance and have a tantrum but face the situation and see if you really want to be drawn into it . |
| 30 | If you really want to be devious , you could spend the money on a particle accelerator . |