Example sentences of "[adv] want [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 2 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 3 | If you only want to take a few doors or windows back to bare wood for repainting , there are many other cheaper guns that would do the job . |
| 4 | If you only want to borrow a small amount , a better option is to take a further advance from your existing lender ( less than £100 to arrange ) or , alternatively , a top-up loan from a second lender . |
| 5 | Such a service is particularly useful for people who only want to sell a few privatisation shares . |
| 6 | If you only want to raise a few seedlings in spring , and provide a humid atmosphere for some cuttings later , an unheated propagator will be adequate . |
| 7 | Cnut himself perhaps wanted to commemorate a great victory . |
| 8 | I imagine you 've long wanted to share a physical relationship with Radcliffe . |
| 9 | Up to that time I had very limited opportunities to conduct and I very much wanted to direct a real concert . |
| 10 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 11 | I only wanted to get a few comments about Froggy . |
| 12 | People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . |
| 13 | In fact , his comments seemingly invite the charge , for he describes the lack of black guardsmen in terms of feelings rather than in terms of the discourse of external factuality : ‘ People do not want to see a black face under a bearskin . ’ |
| 14 | It should be noted that he remarks that ‘ people ’ do not want to see a black face , not that he personally objects to such a sight . |
| 15 | We do not want to see a massive amount of custodial sentencing , although we are glad that provision is made for it ; what we do want is a reduction in the number of people who participate in such a horrendous cult and in the equally horrendous statistics relating to youngsters who take cars , go to court and then take more cars . |
| 16 | Although the Laputans were kind to me , I did not want to spend a long time in their country . |
| 17 | If you are soloing over a straight minor seventh you would not want to resolve a melodic line onto the minor sixth interval , although this would be okay on a m7£5 . |
| 18 | Lord Hanson will not want to ruin a fine track record by acting in haste . |
| 19 | Miquel Tàpies does not want to have a hectic turnover of exhibitions , but a twin programme of major retrospectives and seminars which engender debate . |
| 20 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 21 | More than one bride 's father has been heard to say that he did not want to have a large engagement party if the wedding was to follow within a year because that would involve him in the organization and expense of ‘ two weddings ’ . |
| 22 | A spokesperson at the Brazilian embassy in London said that Brazil did not want to become a regular base of support for the British presence in the Falkland Islands [ see also p. 37001 ] . |
| 23 | She did not want to accept a third coffee . |
| 24 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 25 | There , many Europeans could hardly believe their ears with the excuses of why the British would not want to sign a European Charter on Environment and Health . |
| 26 | ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Cos I just , I just want to have a quick look through it before I gave it |
| 28 | ‘ No , I just want to make a private call . |
| 29 | I just want to make a few pennies by selling some horseflesh . |
| 30 | FOR some time now Wallingford engineering staff have been creeping around like concerned parents not wanting to disturb a sleeping child . |