Example sentences of "[adv] want [to-vb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We only want to talk to you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We only want to talk to you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to talk to you about him . |
| 6 | I just want to talk to you , honey , and I ca n't . |
| 7 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 8 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I never want to talk to you again about anything else but work . ’ |
| 12 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
| 13 | You 're having some row between yourselves and it 's nothing to do with me and you never want to listen to me and — ’ |