Example sentences of "want [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | next of tables like yes , and we will want somewhere to put them , |
| 2 | " That seems sensible — we do n't want merely to duplicate each other 's work , " Henniker said . |
| 3 | Now I do n't want necessarily to equate the two of them . |
| 4 | Oh yes , he wants eventually to have his own group and I 'm encouraging him . |
| 5 | I want slowly to remove his wig ; gently to untie his gown ; slowly , so slowly — and terribly , terribly privately — to whisper in his lovely , lovely ear , while he struggles in vain : ‘ De minimis non curat lex . ’ |
| 6 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 7 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 8 | I said , ‘ If you want somewhere to use , you can use my flat , just as long as there 's only one of you in there at a time . ’ |
| 9 | If you want somewhere to live why not squat . |
| 10 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 11 | I tell them I want only to talk , but , they — being dedicated professionals — think I am joking . |
| 12 | For now I want only to suggest possibilities for further investigation and analysis of representation in British feature films . |
| 13 | I want only to suggest that however closely those match , however complete they are , therefore , in the pairs they form , they all also work as imagines of the writer 's relation to language , now confident , now uncertain , now lonely , now roistering and so on . |
| 14 | At this stage we want only to make an initial contrast between explaining and understanding . |
| 15 | Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’ |
| 16 | But this is to anticipate the argument ; for the moment I want only to observe that a conception of the self as socially and/or metaphysically constituted produces one idea of transgression , and that of the self as ideally ( if not actually ) unified and autonomous , quite another . |
| 17 | You may wish to think carefully about whether you want so to authorize them ; whether you are content to leave the principle of respect for life in the hands of doctors or parents , with no check or system of accountability . |
| 18 | The subjectivity she has is as a subject who desires to be object-a subject who wants only to satisfy the wants of the Master . |
| 19 | I want personally to thank you all for coming . |
| 20 | Lord , we know that you guide the ways of all your servants , but we want especially to commend these people to you , that they may experience a special measure of your support and may know that the Holy Spirit is building the unity of the church in the places to which you have called them . |
| 21 | Like a signal to let you know I want just to talk . |
| 22 | He wants desperately to please me . |
| 23 | ‘ I want tonight to last forever , ’ she murmured . |
| 24 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
| 25 | ‘ People are clearly in earnest and want desperately to find a solution to keep the round on course , ’ a GATT official said . |
| 26 | Right , so if we multiply this by two , from the top two and the bottom , we 'll get twenty five over two hundred , then you can , if you want like to cancel that down , twenty five over two hundred , what would you , what would you cancel there ? |
| 27 | We want also to build a society which strives always to unlock the talent and skills of its own people , to harness what Tawney once magnificently described as ‘ the extraordinary potential of ordinary people ’ . |
| 28 | Secondly , it would be justified if there is a demand for such training — from Christians engaged in development work , and from future church leaders who want both to understand ‘ the problems cropping up everywhere ’ and to support development initiatives with a chance of success . |
| 29 | What a lack of self-confidence this implies : the present wants both to patronise the past by adjudicating on its political acceptability , and also to be flattered by it , to be patted on the back and told to keep up the good work . |
| 30 | I certainly assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no sense in which the Government want positively to discriminate in favour of one type of schooling over others , because parents have a right to choose . |