Example sentences of "[pron] want [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I just find those subject the easiest to deal with : on the one hand , they 're the most tangible feelings I have to pull out of myself ; on the other , they make me want to make a stronger statement when I ultimately do that . |
2 | Er does everyone want to do a general essay or do people want to do a s a specific thing ? |
3 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
4 | In Walton village , next to the railway embankment where James 's mutilated body was discovered , everyone wants to add a new piece of information . |
5 | If someone wants to put a nuclear power station , a new road or railway , a science park , a supermarket or even a public convenience at the bottom of one 's garden , most people would not want it . |
6 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
7 | But also I want to stop a bad thing . ’ |
8 | Now I want to lose a few pounds , ’ he says . |
9 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
10 | And if I want to wear a nice pair of Clarks ' grey espadrilles so then I will wear them . |
11 | In this section I want to compare a Marxian approach to growth — based upon Bukharin 's equations — with that of Harrod . |
12 | I want to see a mighty flood of justice — a torrent of doing good . ’ |
13 | I want to see a little bit of life . ’ |
14 | He told a Westminster press lunch : ‘ I want to see a Conservative government returned at the next general election under Margaret Thatcher 's leadership . ’ |
15 | I want to see a curricular framework which is flexible enough to permit sensible modifications and , where necessary , exemptions to be made in the interests of individual children with special needs . |
16 | I want to reach a larger audience : I 've already made five records on indies , so maybe it 's time to move on , but some younger bands are gon na find themselves pushed into the limelight when they 're not ready . |
17 | Sometimes when I , I write a poem I want to create a particular mood erm giving the piece erm a shape , a , a definite shape or just a shadowy shape erm and the overcoat in er Bon Jour Monsieur Gaugin , I found very , very expressive and the starting point for , for this particular poem I 'll hand this round to you know , with the name of the , the front , right I do n't , has anybody , if you already know this picture , does anybody actually know it already ? , no I start with the overcoat obviously erm very expressive , not just because it was , people wear over , overcoats in cold days , but it was the size of the coat and the shape of it and , and it gave me a weight , I felt , er I felt a very definite mood erm about this picture because of the coat and it was a , er a ejective mood that I , that I felt from that , and the stick in the erm hands of the women over the bridge gave me the sound for , for this poem would you like me to read as the , the thing being passed around , would that be ok ? |
18 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
19 | I want to acknowledge a personal debt to him . |
20 | Er , and I want to talk a little bit about er finance and I , I 've got to recognise to start with that not all money is controllable at the site level . |
21 | But I also began by raising the question of Milton 's sense of dedication because I want to talk a little bit about the egoism of creation . |
22 | Because , I want to do a little bit of that erm we are going |
23 | ‘ It 's a good thing you 're such a chaste little man-hater , Virginia , because the trouble is I want to do a whole lot more than just kiss you … ’ |
24 | ‘ I want to earn a new contract with Everton , ’ he insisted . |
25 | I want to put a specific question to the Minister . |
26 | First I want to say a little bit about the nineteen ninety three ninety four building materials pay round which is dealt with in some detail in the written report that you have . |
27 | Finally I want to say a little bit about the current deadlock in the building industry pay talks . |
28 | Finally , I want to say a few words about the problems with our present laws , especially in relation to welfare . |
29 | Finally , I want to say a few words about the assumption of " slowly varying currents " in connection with the last example . |
30 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |