Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 2 | Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 4 | I badly wanted to know his opinion on the Anwar business , but obviously he was n't in the mood for it now . |
| 5 | Any yet I badly wanted to make some kind of personnel response . |
| 6 | ‘ The price tag worried me and I badly wanted to repay the faith Palace had shown in me . |
| 7 | ‘ I badly want to run well again over 10,000m . |
| 8 | I saw that afterwards , I rather wanted to hang it on this so 's I could put in my comment about the plane |
| 9 | that 's what I said to mum , you know , that 's why I so wanted to pass me , me test , cos I said to mum erm , see I kept it , I only had six hundred quid redundancy , six hundred and twenty eight pounds , that 's all I had , apart , I had me wages what was owed and me holiday pay , but my , me actual redundancy cheque was only six hundred and twenty eight quid |
| 10 | ‘ And I so wanted to see you again — so much , so much ! |
| 11 | ‘ And I so wanted to chat with him . |
| 12 | And I so wanted to buy British … |
| 13 | You see , Harry is coming over from America for that month and I so want to see him . |
| 14 | ‘ I merely wanted to tell you that you 've scared the hell out of everyone at Saracen — except me . |
| 15 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 16 | I merely want to open all the doors as far as they will go at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 18 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 19 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 20 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 21 | ‘ When your mother came to live here and asked me to advise her , ’ he said uneasily , ‘ I naturally wanted to know some background . |
| 22 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 23 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 24 | As I have not had any personal experience of prostitution , I obviously want to get my fact right . |
| 25 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 26 | ‘ I only wanted to thank you for organizing a unique experience for me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I only wanted to explain that my aunt was wrong , ’ she answered eagerly . |
| 28 | ‘ I always said I only wanted to score goals for Manchester United . |
| 29 | ‘ I only wanted to say — ‘ |
| 30 | ‘ I only wanted to ask him a few questions . ’ |