Example sentences of "want is " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I want is to get it out of the flat , I said . |
| 2 | Or : ‘ What I want is paper with narrow lines , |
| 3 | ‘ The only thing I really want is for Alonzo Kettless to carve me an East Suffolk Policeman 's helmet , ’ said Chief Superintendent Rom Rumsby on his retirement . |
| 4 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 5 | The last thing we want is to lose our independence to one of the big five . ’ |
| 6 | You may , even as a novice , care so passionately about plants that all you want is the maximum space to grow them in . |
| 7 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 8 | No , what they want is perfectly expressed in the simple banner held up during the Leipzig demonstrations : ‘ Freiheit ! ! ! ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 10 | When you do speak to your target people , it is important to emphasize that all you want is the person 's opinion and that you will phone back in a couple of weeks to find out what they think . |
| 11 | They have this extraordinary belief that all women want is hope and promise . |
| 12 | All I want is her to carry on brushing my hair with her hands . |
| 13 | All I want is some friends , but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me . |
| 14 | She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and smile , ‘ Oh , please , please … all I want is a cup of tea , weak but not too weak , and the teeniest weeniest bit of really crisp toast . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There is quite a sameness in high street stores in Britain , ’ he told the Clothes Show Magazine , ‘ whereas what customers really want is more individuality . |
| 16 | A supporter said yesterday : ‘ What they want is to have somebody they can control , ’ but Mr Field found it impossible to operate on that basis . |
| 17 | Yasser Arafat sticks doggedly to the infinitely tortuous ‘ peace process ’ , never saying ‘ no ’ to the Americans , even though it is obvious to him that what the Israelis want is surely unique in the history of peace negotiations : to both set their agenda and to appoint the other side 's representatives . |
| 18 | Richard Nelson , Director of Market Research Services at Campbell Soups All consumers want is to be told what is happening to their food , how safe it is and what is its quality … |
| 19 | The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning . |
| 20 | The last thing they all want is a Saddam bloody but unbowed ( President Bush , for the first time , last week urged the Iraqis to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam to ‘ step aside ’ ) . |
| 21 | What they want is a job . ’ |
| 22 | All we want is for things to go back to normal . ’ |
| 23 | Rightly or wrongly , what chairmen want is to narrow ownership back into the hands of rich individuals . |
| 24 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 25 | ‘ But what I want is a bit of time to myself . |
| 26 | All I want is a little cottage . |
| 27 | All they want is to get their unemployment figures down ’ . |
| 28 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 29 | What you want is a location that is always comfortably filled . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ What I want is a country of real opportunity where everyone is free to choose . |