Example sentences of "[indef pn] wants [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only two days to see Paris no-one wants to waste time in car and boat . |
| 2 | People , no-one wants to see Hospital closed . |
| 3 | Everyone wants to see justice done . |
| 4 | Everyone wants to avoid ill-health and the limitations that go with it but , like all good machines , the body needs to be lovingly tuned and oiled . |
| 5 | ‘ After every slump there 's a pick-up , and then everyone wants to make commercials . |
| 6 | In principle , everyone wants to end poverty and hunger , save whales and fluffy seals , find a cure for cancer or HIV . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone wants to shake hands and talk football . |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody wants to leave Earth , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Well actually I always think , Win always say that the W I runs itself because everyone gets on with things and they do n't need to be told and , and when it actually comes to it no nobody wants to become president or officer . . |
| 10 | ‘ Nobody wants to play chess on a rugby pitch , but this change has also changed the face of the game . |
| 11 | If at any stage , somebody wants to talk turkey , and mentions people 's names , they 'll indicate that and we 'll switch the tape off whilst we talk about him . |
| 12 | No one wants to shoot birds , but we must balance the survival of an entire species against that of a few individuals |
| 13 | No one wants to see students forced to abandon their studies for financial reasons and no one wants to see students in hardship , but I do not believe that students are abandoning their studies for financial reasons . |
| 14 | No one wants to see students forced to abandon their studies for financial reasons and no one wants to see students in hardship , but I do not believe that students are abandoning their studies for financial reasons . |
| 15 | This is the point where everyone believes interest rates will rise , and therefore no one wants to buy bonds . |
| 16 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 17 | The assumption of an infinitely sharp crack tip leads to infinite stresses at the tip and this is clearly meaningless when one wants to investigate fracture . |
| 18 | Of course one wants to avoid situations where the conflict reaches excessive levels and actually gets in the way of running the business , but if the right decisions are to be taken it is essential that conflicting views are heard and thrashed out . |
| 19 | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING REASONABLE No one wants departing employees to take the firm 's best clients with them , but courts will not always uphold restraint clauses |
| 20 | ( If anyone wants to see prescience in its purest form , they might read quotations from Woodcock 's writing in my obituary article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography . ) |
| 21 | ‘ If anyone wants to bring Eurovision north , I would be willing to help . |