Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
2 | What , what age do you want to retire and what income do you want and |
3 | ‘ It was a derby which City did not want to lose and we were left to make the running a lot of the time . |
4 | I did n't want to go but I thought she deserved a better life than I could offer . |
5 | England star Martin Dugard is set to ride off to Eastbourne as the cheetahs struggle to find a new financial backer … there are talks this weekend but if no deal is done then Dugard is certain to sign for the Sussex team … he does n't want to go but may have to … |
6 | They did n't want to go and kill a lot of people they did n't know . |
7 | Why would anyone want to go and see a man who was a coward ? |
8 | ‘ Do you want to go and sit down some place ? ’ |
9 | We phone each other and say , ‘ Do you want to go and climb a Munro tomorrow ? ’ |
10 | Why would I want to go and wander around on these featureless big sods at the weekend , when I could be rollicking along a precipice on a terrifying , craggy west-coast mountain ? |
11 | ‘ She … she did n't want to go and see him ; she just wanted somebody to tell her he was alive and , what seemed important was , how she was going to tell his people what had happened to him and where he was . |
12 | It made me want to go and live in San Francisco . ’ |
13 | ‘ That man makes me want to go and live in San Francisco , ’ said Mum . |
14 | I think I will be very frightened and may want to go and hide . ’ |
15 | ‘ Do you want to go and say hallo to him ? ’ |
16 | She did n't want to go and live in South Africa either . |
17 | Do you want to go and see him ? ’ |
18 | Now why would anyone want to go and do a thing like that ? |
19 | Now , do you want to go and see the specialist about this drink problem , David ? |
20 | ‘ Do you want to go and see ? ’ |
21 | I do n't want to go and live with Desmond … ’ |
22 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
23 | And er they used to say , Do n't you want to go and see what you 've got ? |
24 | On the other hand , I do n't want to go and retire in the country and grow cabbages , in order to prolong my life ! |
25 | It had not occurred to him that Jessica 's behaviour might have put a suitor off , more that Parr would want to go and smack her cheeky face , as he would have done . |
26 | Er one question less than five percent it will not be but I do n't want to go and indeed I , for reasons that er David outlined , I ca n't go , ca n't be precise , but er it 's not something to get scared about . |
27 | Probably because you would want to go and play . |
28 | Well you might want to go and ask him er about it because he 'll be presumably your , your , your personal tutor as well so erm you may be able to get some more er you know , some , some , something off him you know kind of what he thought of your essay or something like that |
29 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
30 | I 'll perhaps want to go and then I 've got ta go up then . |