Example sentences of "[pron] want [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want now just to summarise and er some of these the features I 'm going to point out I 've I 've already stated so you may may just want to sit back and just take this in . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't doubt that , Claudia , but you also want to keep me away from Garry , ’ she added shrewdly , ‘ and you want even more to keep me away from Roman . |
| 3 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 4 | It also made him want even more to pull her close and heal her wounds with a kiss . |
| 5 | It was women they wanted up there to spread some common sense among them . |
| 6 | They wanted not merely to take anti-pollution and anti-nuclear measures , but also to change Germany back into a rural economy , yet they grew rapidly in appeal after 1981 and attracted the sympathy of leftists who were dissatisfied with the moderation of the SPD . |
| 7 | It was something he wanted not only to preserve but somehow to revive . |
| 8 | For the first time in what seemed an age to him , he wanted not only to laugh but to guffaw , like he used to do when Harry or Martin came out with something funny . |
| 9 | He knew of course that he never could meet them , but he wanted so badly to talk to them that he would get out their letters and pictures from his box of papers and talk quietly to them anyway . |
| 10 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |