Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] want [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |
| 2 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 3 | Takahashi is one of those people I loved on sight , or with whom I just wanted to go to bed , but denied myself the opportunity , thus leaving them forever desirable in my memory . |
| 4 | I just wanted to go to the bathroom . |
| 5 | I felt so tired I just wanted to go to sleep . |
| 6 | I just wanted to say to you , firstly I declare an interest in OxRad , not pecuniary , of course , with money , however , but it is on behalf of charities , it is the only way they can generally raise some two three hundred pounds in a day , or sometimes a little more , that is a tremendous help to charities . |
| 7 | Sorry , I just wanted to refer to page eighty-one , erm sixth form conference , thirty-three . |
| 8 | I just wanted to come to you , to make a little space around you , I do n't want to discuss anything , I do n't want to do anything , I wo n't say anything , I just wanted to be there , I mean here . ’ |
| 9 | I just wanted to get to Leicester Square . |
| 10 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 11 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 12 | I believe that the C E C is accepting this , and I just want to say to the branch secretaries out there , do what I do , tell every member grab the cheque and throw the disclaimer in the bin . |
| 13 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 14 | ‘ I just want to talk to you about him . |
| 15 | I just want to talk to you , honey , and I ca n't . |
| 16 | I just want to go to bed and get to sleep . |
| 17 | ‘ I just want to go to sleep . |
| 18 | I just want to go to sleep and forget — forget it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you , but — I just want to go to my room . ’ |
| 20 | I just want to get to Marks and Spencer . ’ |
| 21 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 22 | He was asked shy he had joined the team : ‘ Because I always wanted to get to a press conference like this , ’ he growled . |
| 23 | I stayed in London for some time , but I still wanted to go to sea . |
| 24 | And I want to get back into Tibet and I also want to go to Russia . |
| 25 | I also wanted to talk to Seddon , but I could n't hope to talk in a pub now . |
| 26 | But for today I now want to turn to a number of erm definitions and classifications linked to foreign policy and this is where I want you to start working a bit harder . |
| 27 | I now want to prove to you that this kind of evolution I 've been talking about , evolution by natural selection , at the level of individual genes , can not produce social cooperation . |
| 28 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 29 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 30 | We know something numerically about different systems , but we know little about them experientially , we know little about what it feels like , what the impact is upon individuals in the two different systems , and I really wanted to swing to the other type of research and look in more detail at how different pupils would respond to the streamed situation , not simply in terms of their performance measured in tests , but in terms of their attitudes to school , their attitudes to their life outside of school , their involvement in erm sub-cultural groups or in youth clubs , this kind of thing . |