Example sentences of "only want " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly they will have a presence in the instant sector that will be created but they will only want to hold shares in two or three companies . |
| 2 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |
| 3 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 4 | So you may only want to buy what you think you 're likely to need . |
| 5 | Another in Sutton , Surrey , said : ‘ I would only want a bunch of wild flowers and the simplest departure possible . |
| 6 | As an adult garment printed at actual size will cover many sheets of A4 paper , you will probably only want to print at actual size if the print is to be used in conjunction with a charting device or if you design intarsia . |
| 7 | You will only want to do this on rare occasions . |
| 8 | It is easy to see that at high prices consumers will only want to consume small quantities , while a fall in price will mean that demand increases . |
| 9 | Most sales people are that false that they will only want to know you if they can sell you something . |
| 10 | I should only want to hush it up . |
| 11 | As he ran upstairs she wondered why she should be so pleased he had come , he would only want to dredge up information to help in the murder case . |
| 12 | If Gran wakes , she 'll only want a glass of water . ’ |
| 13 | Although buyers will want to secure the best possible deal for themselves , sellers will only want to sell if they too think that they will obtain a good deal . |
| 14 | Equally , said Alison Fellows , we would only want Bordeaux wine from Bordeaux . |
| 15 | But Eleanor Young , chairman of Darlington Community Health Council , said : ‘ We would only want to know if the hospital was going to have any effect on NHS provision . |
| 16 | He would n't he would n't he would n't he would n't he would n't want milk , he 'd only want tea . |
| 17 | They did n't only want lumps on their heads |
| 18 | Do you only want one ? |
| 19 | I thought I put it over there , erm I would only want half of these potatoes , would you manage those ? |
| 20 | Do you only want sweet |
| 21 | ‘ She only wants you safe — ‘ She wants me safe from Jean . |
| 22 | He is the odd man out at the ball , he only wants one kiss , but it always eludes him . ’ |
| 23 | They range variously from Fokine 's Pierrot in Le Carnaval who only wants ‘ one kiss ’ and his puppet Petrushka who wants to be free to Ashton 's Alain mentioned above and MacMillan 's Bratfisch in Mayerling . |
| 24 | Poor darling , she only wants to be taken out . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 're asking me if I 'm some sort of embittered , wounded animal , who only wants to reach out and break things because he ca n't be happy or possess them ? ’ |
| 26 | — Because he only wants the land , see . |
| 27 | If he only wants to use a part-pack , the operator pulls the lever to suck neat chemical into the transparent tube . |
| 28 | ‘ Says he only wants the best men up the top of the tower . |
| 29 | It only wants to be played on . |
| 30 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |