Example sentences of "[modal v] want [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This means , then , that the sort of target group description the agency may want to develop for the advertising will be something like this ( for a brand of ice cream ) :
2 Whatever criticisms one may want to make of the quality of the evidence and analysis of the debate , it is hard to deny its effectiveness in changing the climate with regard to the control of the curriculum .
3 You 'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in
4 He 'll want to go to the toilet when you start blowing the candles out little horror
5 That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party .
6 " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . "
7 It would be very naive to suppose that one report taken on its own could tell you as much as you might want to know about the organization .
8 I thought you 'd want to sit round the table .
9 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
10 ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’
11 although he would want to return to the question of public spending savings , he said that the report was a very thorough examination and also exceptionally well written .
12 And who but a megalomaniac would want to live on the set for a Hammer horror movie ? ’
13 What , do you have any idea what sort of social work you would want to do in the end , or not really ?
14 After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’
15 She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said .
16 He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west .
17 Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future .
18 Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence .
19 KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’
20 KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’
21 It is , obviously , extremely easy to get stereotyped in layout : it is the art director 's job to avoid this , without doing excessive damage to the way the reader will want to take in the ad .
22 For should any difficulty emerge at this stage , we will want to return to the party kept on hold without undue delay .
23 Repeat the above steps for each Program Group and each Program Item that you will want to use through the DOS shell .
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