Example sentences of "we want [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to go to the beach . ’ |
| 2 | General Secretary , you may be ready to dive in now , but we but we want to wait till the time is right . |
| 3 | Finally in this chapter we want to return to the source of all social science data , and the ultimate object of social scientific investigation , namely the members of society . |
| 4 | A horse 's degree of tolerance , or passivity , as opposed to impatience and irritability , will be very important in relation to what we want to do with the horse . |
| 5 | Anything else Now , just before we all er disappear , can I just quickly check what we want to do about the departure . |
| 6 | We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic . |
| 7 | We want to stay in the area as we both like walking , especially in the Dales , ’ said Audrey . |
| 8 | But this particular case Mr Deputy Speaker what we want to know from the minister is on these new boundaries what do we actually have to do ? |
| 9 | This is in addition to the letter written to the two of you and Tim , which you will recognize as being a step on the way to telling Tim that we want to reprogram from the top . |
| 10 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 11 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 12 | ‘ In general terms we want to work with the industry and do our best to build a scheme based on existing systems . |
| 13 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
| 14 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 15 | And you know , so often you and I , we have questions that we want to bring to the Lord , if only was here in person , if only we could sit him down in the front room , how many things we would have to ask of him ! |
| 16 | ‘ We want to bring to the attention of people in the south east of England just what we have to offer in the West Country , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Strach is not quick enough to beat his full-back either — so as it is we have to rely to much on our full-backs overlapping if we want to get to the bye line . |
| 18 | I think , I think it would be a good idea to have , as every sort of maybe every two or three meetings to have something a bit different erm , and we do , we do find if we want to get through the business quickly |
| 19 | ‘ We want to get across the message that it is vital to continue campaigning , ’ says BA director Tim Godfray . |
| 20 | We want to get into the street again , to shift into normality , to chat in the pub , to laugh again . |
| 21 | They may need to reorganize because of demography — that 's the number of pupils that are in a particular area , where you 've got too many schools , or it may be that they want to change the type of offer , such as some of us want to do in the City of Oxford . |