Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 4 | She does not principally want to know what the data signify in themselves but how texts reflect processes of communication , and how and why they were used to organise purposeful action , make valid claims , or to express feelings . |
| 5 | English Heritage does not even want these sites investigated it seems , because they regard excavation as crude and too intrusive . |
| 6 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 7 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 8 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 9 | For , like the most envious of step-mothers , she does not really want to leave anything worth having to John Major at all ; she wishes to live in Thatcherland , surrounded by mirrors all perpetually claiming her to be the one and only . |
| 10 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 11 | The seventeen year old does not always want to listen to the views of his father and mother , particularly if he has his heart set upon a motorbike ! |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | For all these reasons , the Bosnian government does not much want its own capital to become a safe haven . |
| 14 | she does n't also want to forget |
| 15 | For Rabbit does n't just want to say what 's true : he wants to make Pooh believe it . |
| 16 | She does n't particularly want to be a top model . |
| 17 | Sometimes he gets out of bed and does n't even want to play tennis at all ! ’ |
| 18 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 19 | She ca n't cook , she does n't especially want to learn to cook , and I have only the sketchiest notion of British cooking . |
| 20 | She does n't much want them actually to touch her . |
| 21 | Of course he does n't really want to be alone . |
| 22 | But John Drake does n't really want to talk about rare plants . |
| 23 | He does n't really want it for anything , but he is n't keen on having what he calls a flock of children on his land . |
| 24 | That means he does n't really want to . |
| 25 | She says she does n't really want to earn money from the revelations but simply wants to set the story of the Yorks ' marriage straight . |
| 26 | And the former commander added : ‘ The Army does n't really want the regiment mentioned at all , but we lost guys out there and others were injured . |
| 27 | And the thing is , that Barry does n't really want to get on the plane until it 's all sorted out . |
| 28 | He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler . |
| 29 | It does n't really want to and I find it difficult to believe and I 'm not sure I want to because I feel so fucking drained and sore , but the thing 's actually responding , fattening and firming and rising in her kneading , soap-slick hands . |
| 30 | He tells everybody his sister gave it to him for Christmas and he does n't really want one , but what with the job and all his meetings it comes in handy . |