Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 2 | Grow species tulips , such as T tarda , if you want to leave bulbs in the ground to flower reliably year after year . |
| 3 | This is because they 're no good fur falconry proper — you can train them to fly free and return to you , but as they 're nocturnal it 's difficult to train them to hunt under ‘ controlled conditions ’ , particularly if you want to do displays for the public . |
| 4 | Such questions are particularly useful when the social health of the group is poor , when the group is very unused to being given responsibility , when you want to draw individuals into the decision-making process , perhaps because they are mischievous or nervous . |
| 5 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a nice thing to know if you ever get tense , er decide that this is it , I 'll throw things Er well I do when I want to throw things at the kitchen and go away and you use aromatherapy . |
| 8 | And , since we 're talking about it , I want to make amends for the way I treated his mother . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I just want to introduce others to the pleasures of writing and sharing that writing with others . ’ |