Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , psychology has been seeking acceptance as a ‘ real ’ science , and has not therefore wanted to emphasize the social side of human action , but rather the physiological , behavioural and physically measurable aspects of human behaviour . |
| 2 | Lennox has always truly wanted to fight for the world title and was happy taking the tough route . |
| 3 | Those were words she 'd so desperately wanted to hear . |
| 4 | You ca n't say I came here tonight wanting a row — that you ca n't say . ’ |
| 5 | Many of the kids who are out there making music do n't necessarily want a record deal . |
| 6 | Well my husband and I were married in nineteen forty four , you see , and er as you see I go every year and it 's nineteen eighty six , so therefore erm I you see I , I do n't really want people to know my age |
| 7 | So I I 'd I , I do n't really want one ! |
| 8 | ‘ Not weak , but not bluffing either — not pretending he 'd never really wanted her , hated her , was better on his own . |
| 9 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 10 | And if they get together neither wants to pay because they have n't done anything , we 've only taken the stuff out and put it back in again . |
| 11 | And I know what Briant is doing , and why , and though I do n't go all the way with him , I go far enough to want to come in on his side . |
| 12 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 13 | They did not particularly want that , but it was foisted upon them . |
| 14 | Only his sighting of Kingdom in Lindos five days before Heather 's disappearance did he withhold : he did not yet want to test Zohra 's loyalty too severely . |
| 15 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 16 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 17 | Richard did not even want to preside . |
| 18 | Furniture was the focus of interest but , according to John Hill , from Jeremy of the King 's Road , London , the Americans did not just want good examples of standard items , they wanted something different , with a gimmick or original style . |
| 19 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 20 | This drew the comment from Bertrand Russell that both East and West did not really want disarmament . |
| 21 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 22 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 23 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 24 | Lisa always knew she did not really want her baby adapted , and before she was even born had decided against it . |
| 25 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 26 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd better try to find the prisoners , ’ said Fenella at last , although she did not really want to leave the comparative safety of the wood-store . |
| 28 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 29 | The queen dowager would probably have been considerably more of an embarrassment at large , and the Crowland chronicler implies that Gloucester did not really want to resolve the question . |
| 30 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |