Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 2 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 3 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 4 | I have some pictures of it here , which I want to show to my hon. Friend . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't want to sleep in my old bed , ’ she whispered . |
| 6 | to give up and I thought I do n't want to fail on my own so I wo n't even attempt and then I erm I joined this project , and that was enough , I think , to keep me off . |
| 7 | You said you wanted to come on my first canoe-trip . ’ |
| 8 | Was that why you wanted to pry into my private life ? |
| 9 | He said : ‘ It 's nice to prove people wrong , but first and foremost I wanted to win for my own satisfaction . |
| 10 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 11 | I said there was no way I wanted to live on my own . |
| 12 | I wanted to exclaim like my Servite friend ‘ Glory be to God , ’ but it did not seem quite right . |