Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] actually want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who want to be paid-up , signed-up members and those who for one reason or another do not actually want to become a member but are keen to be kept informed , involved and used as the occasion demands . |
| 2 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 3 | It was as if he did n't actually want to go near the scene of the crime and I could n't blame him . |
| 4 | The reactions after Hiroshima , er when the bombed had dropped were erm , somewhat strange , people with documentation say that people even though they were injured did n't actually want to move away from their home early , erm , and so that possibly the same sort of thing happened in Chernobyl . |
| 5 | Finally it was time to tackle the design of the hotel 's talking-point — the vast fresh-water swimming-pool Stephen planned to construct to cater for guests who , having come thousands of miles to see the Caribbean , decided they did n't actually want to swim in it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm bigger than you , stronger than you — and I 've got another advantage , because I know that you do n't actually want to leave here . ’ |
| 7 | Therefore if we do n't actually want to live in the same place as the residents , which I certainly would n't want to do , right . |
| 8 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | You do n't actually want to stand next to her though do you ? |
| 10 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |