Example sentences of "[adv] want [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might rarely want to roll the treble off the neck pickup , but you can take treble off the bridge pickup , if it 's a little hairy for you , and still be sure of a full-treble sound on the neck pickup when you hit the switch hard left . |
| 2 | It is that sentence the club will most want to see cut . |
| 3 | In early March the Foreign Minister , Jiri Dienstbier , had also declared that his country would eventually want to join the European Communities . |
| 4 | ‘ And we shall eventually want to take statements from everyone — in particular , the six ladies who baked these cakes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Carrying a knife makes you feel big , you 'll eventually want to use it , ’ said one . |
| 6 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 7 | They 'd badly want to find the car to forestall any possible inquiries about an abandoned vehicle , and to remove all evidence of my presence . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , they do rather want to take in a show , but we 'll have to see what 's open . |
| 9 | The denial of prejudice is strategic , but ‘ we thereby want to convey that the move is strategical only relative to the goal of ‘ making a good impression ’ , rather than to the goal of being ‘ sincere and honest ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 10 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I badly want to run well again over 10,000m . |
| 12 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 13 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |
| 14 | The Abbey National is the latest company to target the Chancellor as the man it most wants to replace Sir Campbell Adamson when he eventually retires as chairman . |
| 15 | It 's the application side of the equation which the company most wants to grow , as operating systems — VME , Unix and MS-DOS — continue to show a slow decline : they accounted for 51% of software sales in 1990 . |
| 16 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 17 | Some Italian once wrote that the critic secretly wants to kill the writer . |
| 18 | Montgomerie badly wants to finish his season with a win , having been runner-up four times , including the Dunhill Cup team tournament . |
| 19 | He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way . |
| 20 | England 's most endearing footballer badly wants to belong again , and I still believe a half-fit Gascoigne would offer Taylor more in mid-field than has been dished up lately . |
| 21 | He badly wants to play against Spain . ’ |
| 22 | He badly wants to play , and believes that once he has a League match with Lazio under his belt he will be ready to give his heart to England . |
| 23 | He badly wants to play against Spain . ’ |
| 24 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 25 | The IFC badly wants to double its capital with an injection of $1.3 billion from its government shareholders . |
| 26 | what you need to think about and you 're gon na keep your readers ' interest engaged , keep on want to keep reading , your pictures are gon na do that to a certain extent but that 's what your sub-headings goes over , so think about , pick out , read through your main story , pick out your main ideas and see if you can slot in one of those emotive words that 's passion , that 's stirring people 's emotions |
| 27 | This is the point erm , well Plato made the point that the people we most want to rule us are probably the ones that are the least likely to want to take on that duty and Ben Williams made the same point the other way round that the people who rise to the top in politics are likely to be the ones that we would least like to have governing us . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 29 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 30 | Indeed , he remains the one royal personage whom portraitists most want to paint . |