Example sentences of "[pers pn] really [verb] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what I really wanted to do . |
| 2 | Next day I did n't feel so bad and I made an appearance for a charity — I really had to do it — then went to visit a relative the following day . |
| 3 | Time and time again , indie music chooses The Byrds of ‘ All I Really Want to Do ’ over ‘ Eight Miles High ’ or ‘ Younger Than Yesterday ’ , chooses the Velvet Underground of ‘ There She Goes Again , over Venus in Furs ’ , the Pink Floyd of ‘ See Emily Play ’ over ‘ Interstellar Overdrive ’ . |
| 4 | We told him we sure would , and he said , ‘ Well , I really want to do one . ’ |
| 5 | Her Greatest Hits ( Geffen ) album covers 27 years , beginning with the 1965 hit All I Really Want To Do . |
| 6 | ‘ I really want to do something useful . ’ |
| 7 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 8 | You know what I really want to do , do n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I feel I 've at last found what I really want to do in life , Jannie , ’ he said . |
| 10 | If I really want to do something , I will find the time . |
| 11 | It 's just a hobby I really enjoy , journalism is the job I really want to do and you never know drama could come in handy one day ! |
| 12 | And if I 'm saying I really want to do less for the cracker bar now , because that was hard pushed . |
| 13 | This is what I really want to do . |
| 14 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 15 | So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight . |
| 16 | Yeah must be really good the thing that I really want to do in the Christmas holiday is go-carting |
| 17 | I really need to do n't I ? |
| 18 | I could n't work in those circumstances , so I decided this was the right time if I really wanted to do something with my solo career , just break loose completely . ’ |
| 19 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 20 | Then I decided I really wanted to do music again , started taking care of myself and now things are a lot better . ’ |
| 21 | Every so often I 'd have to grip the wheel tightly because what I really wanted to do was interrupt my drollery , pull over on to the hard shoulder , turn to my passenger and say , ‘ By the way , Stuart , I 'm in love with your wife . ’ |
| 22 | Er and something I really wanted to do , and really enjoyed . |
| 23 | But he would n't believe I really wanted to do it , called me a drop-out . |
| 24 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 25 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 26 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 27 | Erm , but erm , what I really wanted to do was to cover about . |
| 28 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 29 | She worked as a secretary , and loathed it — but she could n't decide what she really wanted to do . |
| 30 | But by now she realised that what she really wanted to do was act ( she chose drama at high school to get out of English ) . |