Example sentences of "want to get [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 2 | and he wants to get it for his disability project to see if he can get |
| 3 | Now if you understand that , if you 're actually targeting , you want to get something into a national paper or local paper or something , you need to think at about your particular item you want to get across and think ‘ What sort of angle could actually be useful for that particular outlet ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Look , sonny , it sticks out a mile that you want to get something off your chest but you 're scared to hell what will happen to you if you do . |
| 5 | Now this time we 're here for four weeks so it would probably be that they want to get everybody through this time without anybody escaping the net . |
| 6 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 7 | I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’ |
| 8 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 9 | For example , in France , we have to comply with the French plan comptable , so within a particular row you state the origin of the information , that is , which nominal ledger account you want to get it from — we have a fairly simple account code structure with cost centre account codes — then you say the club name and its account number . |
| 10 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 11 | Naturally I would n't want to get him in any trouble . ’ |
| 12 | You would n't want to get me into trouble , would you ? ’ |
| 13 | I used to be a professional cleaner — I do n't want to get her into any trouble , I … ’ |
| 14 | So I 'll get one should we get , er , should we do you want to get something between us ? |
| 15 | ‘ I particularly do n't want to get it at the moment , ’ he said rather irritably . |
| 16 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 17 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |
| 18 | I think Mr. Mendez wanted to get him on his way before he had time to change his mind ; before he spent another night staring at the ceiling and counting all the reasons why he should n't go to Contention . |
| 19 | Well no , we wanted to get one for Charlotte , but erm , I do n't think they 'll use them |
| 20 | and we wanted to get it through Access , and the credit limit on Access was what was it a thousand ? |