Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've given a lot of blood , sweat and tears and I do n't just want to pass it all on for somebody else to inherit . |
| 2 | ‘ You can , ’ came the reply , ‘ there 's a spiral staircase inside , I gather , but the gamekeeper lives there now and I do n't particularly want to meet him . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 4 | No , I ca n't do it now not in front of Cathy and that lot , they 'll think me a little slag and I do n't particularly want that image . |
| 5 | I 've seen Anne and Nonnie and I do n't particularly want to see anybody else . |
| 6 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 7 | There is a lot you can do when you get back to the original mix tape , but for us the mix was all part of the creative process and I do n't really want to remix stuff . |
| 8 | It 's not something you ever get over , and I do n't really want to get over it . |
| 9 | And I do n't really want a phone , except to make sure about my brother 's coming . |
| 10 | I do n't want to cut down on all his drinks , and I do n't really want to start ‘ lifting ’ him to the toilet . |
| 11 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 12 | But the ones who went into it professionally , I see them often on the telly advertising things and I do n't really want to do that . |
| 13 | They 've got , do do you know when I go into Sainsburys , mind you , sometimes I go into Sainsburys and I do n't really want anything , I just like to look round in there . |
| 14 | It was my dream , and I did n't just want to bash out songs and see how it went . |
| 15 | Aside from the fact that I 'm not normally given to physical violence , I 'm quite well known locally , and I did n't particularly want to be seen carrying a half-naked woman ashore — which is what you threatened me with . |
| 16 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 17 | I know I 'd had to smash the door , he had to smash the door open with a spade , the lock for me , cos , he , he , he could n't get , he tried er taking that panel out at the bottom and he could n't get it out and I did n't really want him to smash the double glazed glass , in fact it , that would of been very difficult |
| 18 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes you hear a knock on the door and you do n't even want to answer because you do n't know who it is . |
| 20 | Or , if that person buys you a gift voucher and you do n't necessarily want to have a treatment that states on the gift voucher , you can come and exchange it for products . |
| 21 | And you do n't really want the rest . |
| 22 | And she did not even want to see , she thought , she had not enough interest to see round the place to which she was so anxious to consign her mother . |
| 23 | If she rang Tony to warn him , Damian would guess that she had done so , and she did n't even want to consider his rage if he did . |
| 24 | He would start to pressurise her again and she did n't really want to go to the Dordogne at all . |
| 25 | And we do n't just want the big bulls . |
| 26 | ‘ And we do n't exactly want it on the front of the Daily Express , sir . |
| 27 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 28 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 29 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 30 | I should think I mean , one of the guys he does the and they do n't even want to do the word . |