Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 2 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 3 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 4 | Most agents prefer a term of about three years , whereas bands want to work on a yearly basis . |
| 5 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 6 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 7 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 8 | If you are between 8 and 14 and want to participate in a dark journey of the imagination come to the VALLEY OF DOOM . |
| 9 | Clacton police want to hear from a ginger-haired man , aged about 18 , who called at nearby Branwhite 's garage about 8.45 pm to eliminate him from their inquiries . |
| 10 | Now I just want to look at a simple class of demand function , right , which we could write , if I can get a pen that works we write the demand function as P equals A over Q to the beta . |
| 11 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 12 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 13 | But if you want to play for a good cause and strap on your box in the company of famous faces , challenge The Lord 's Taverners to a match . |
| 14 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
| 15 | want to run about a muddy field and think it 's fun they should do so ! |
| 16 | That you still want to compete in a young man 's race , even though it might kill you ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I want to live in a small village. , |
| 18 | ‘ I want to live in a big house , with lots of rooms . ’ |
| 19 | If you want to save on a regular basis you can arrange for a fixed amount to be transferred from your Current Account into the Deposit Account every month . |
| 20 | ‘ Hmm , maybe , ’ replied Rachel thoughtfully , then , changing the subject , she said , ‘ I think I 'll go to lunch now , then later this afternoon I want to get in a quick swim . ’ |
| 21 | Another reason may be , again , that they have very little precise notion of what they want to get from a particular text . |
| 22 | ( c ) Position conflicts : the position you take in one piece of litigation may be at odds with the position you want to take in a subsequent action ( for example , in advancing the cause of a plaintiff you may adopt a position that puts you in difficulty with some defence clients who are less than impressed with the vigour with which you espouse the plaintiff 's cause ) . |
| 23 | I feel I can encapsulate the feeling in the music and then say what I want to say in a direct manner . |
| 24 | Secondly , if you want to move to a certain subdirectory . |
| 25 | The incident happened between 1.30 and 2.40 on Saturday afternoon ; police want to speak to a young man seen on a pedal cycle in the area at the time . |