Example sentences of "[pers pn] just want " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just want to get the looks right ’ . |
| 2 | I just want to tell you . |
| 3 | I just want to get on and do it . |
| 4 | I am prepared to wait if I know that in the end he 'll be let in , but in the meantime I just want them to allow my children to attend school . |
| 5 | That 's all I want to do — I just want to shout and jump . |
| 6 | I give my leg a nasty bash , but I do n't stop and see if it 's bleeding — I just want to get out . |
| 7 | She ai n't young or nothing — I spect she 's got kids and that , but her skin is so lovely and soft-looking and warm like runny chocolate I just want to touch it . |
| 8 | I just want to stay here and sleep . |
| 9 | I just want to go to bed and get to sleep . |
| 10 | ‘ But I just want to know what 's happening , that 's all . ’ |
| 11 | I just want to be comfortable . |
| 12 | ‘ Please , ’ I said , speaking carefully , ‘ I just want a one-way ticket to Stockholm for tomorrow morning at 10.05 . ’ |
| 13 | He ended his hour-long presentation with the words , ‘ We are on our way toward making the division one of the best goddamned outfits in overseas operations , and I just want to be given the chance to prove that the plan which I have outlined to you today is the right one for the British operation , for Europe and for the Corporation . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I just want to be able to do what I like . ’ |
| 15 | Holding back he said , on impulse : ‘ Grandma , I just want to see the lake , before I go … |
| 16 | ‘ No , I just want to know if anyone knows you 're here . ’ |
| 17 | I just want to tell someone , that ’ s all , and you 're least involved . |
| 18 | Certainly I have had it said to me by grieving , often very elderly , people : ‘ There 's nothing left for me now , I just want to be with my husband . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't care about a queue , I just want a picture ! ’ he announced himself , throwing other boys out of the way impatiently . |
| 20 | I just want to stay in work enjoying what I do . |
| 21 | But this day is something I 've dreamed of since I was a kid and I just want to enjoy it . |
| 22 | I just want to get to Marks and Spencer . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I just want to score runs and see what happens . |
| 24 | I just want to know if your anger is because of the way the project has absorbed me lately , or if it 's simply the ill-mannered forgetfulness I showed last night — which I do n't deny , and for which I again apologize . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , I just want to make a private call . |
| 26 | I just want to keep travelling . |
| 27 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I just want to forget it all , ’ Murray reiterated , and in his agitation stuffed both letters together into his trouser pocket , where they remained , forgotten , until a month later when he returned to the London apartment , cramped but in a smart street in Chelsea , which his mother 's divorce settlement had provided . |
| 29 | ‘ I just want to get around in one piece . |
| 30 | ‘ I just want to check the restaurant first . |