Example sentences of "[pron] want only [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell them I want only to talk , but , they — being dedicated professionals — think I am joking . |
| 2 | But this is to anticipate the argument ; for the moment I want only to observe that a conception of the self as socially and/or metaphysically constituted produces one idea of transgression , and that of the self as ideally ( if not actually ) unified and autonomous , quite another . |
| 3 | For now I want only to suggest possibilities for further investigation and analysis of representation in British feature films . |
| 4 | I want only to suggest that however closely those match , however complete they are , therefore , in the pairs they form , they all also work as imagines of the writer 's relation to language , now confident , now uncertain , now lonely , now roistering and so on . |
| 5 | I wanted only to go down to the summer-house and watch the leaves falling until night fell with them . |
| 6 | I wanted only to study the frieze . |
| 7 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 8 | The sensation rocked through her , and she wanted only to remain there , feeling the suggestive thrust of his tongue as it explored the inner softness of her mouth and gently , expertly made her intensely and inescapably aware of the hard , pulsing heat of his virile manhood pressing insistently against her thighs . |
| 9 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 10 | My poor husband , who wanted only to help , ended up as their victim . |
| 11 | At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding . |