Example sentences of "[noun sg] want [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne was too busy eating to want to spar with him further . |
| 2 | However , the developer wanted to stick by his original scheme and Coun. |
| 3 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 4 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 5 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 6 | Its owner wants to concentrate on his other , unrelated major business retail interests in Cleveland . |
| 7 | Nijman Zeetank 's UK director Clive Riggall said the company wanted to move from its former Lincoln base to the North west as one of its major customers was Pilkington Glass , based in St Helens . |
| 8 | Sgt John Marshall of the mounted section wants to hear from anyone interested in selling a horse which must be a minimum of 16 hands . |