Example sentences of "want [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parissien acknowledges another benefit : ‘ the bottom line , for those who want to see it that way , is that the course is also a guide to how to put money onto a house , rather than take it off . ’ |
| 2 | You want to see it safe in its new quarters . ’ |
| 3 | Want to try it all together |
| 4 | I want to know it all . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to know it all . ’ |
| 6 | But I want to hear it all . |
| 7 | Of course I want to hear it all . ’ |
| 8 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 9 | Oh he says I can get you one , I said I want to hear it first |
| 10 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 11 | Staff at the school now want to put it all behind them and start again in their new building . |
| 12 | And while I can understand certain people saying that yes , smoking irritates my eyes , my nose , and yes , they 're quite right they are entitled to breathe erm u u unsolid air , if yo if you want to put it that |
| 13 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 14 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 15 | ‘ Some mornings when I wake up I just want to give it all up . |
| 16 | Of more concern is the way Barnes has failed to silence his critics with his feet since his poor display and when asked if he will win his 69th cap next week , Taylor said simply : ‘ I want to give it some thought . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I just want to forget it all , ’ Murray reiterated , and in his agitation stuffed both letters together into his trouser pocket , where they remained , forgotten , until a month later when he returned to the London apartment , cramped but in a smart street in Chelsea , which his mother 's divorce settlement had provided . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 19 | Over the last 20 years people have been buying as opposed to renting and once they own something they want to keep it separate . |
| 20 | But , but if we 've used up her allowances er i you know it i if you want to keep it separate , if it 's simpler separate that 's okay |
| 21 | the only way of Maybe not the only way , but the the easiest way for people to er get debt , if you want to call it that , was er to use this Co book . |
| 22 | That 's right y you feel as though you want to rub it all the time . |
| 23 | But I want to get it right here if I can . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I just want to get it right and make sure I do the best for each of the students in my charge . ’ |
| 25 | They have reached a point in their drama when they need factual information , they want to get it right . |
| 26 | Erm , but you 're saying , you do n't , you want to get it right without doing that . |
| 27 | Lucy says ’ I want to get it right . |
| 28 | I want to get it right . |
| 29 | Want to get it all sorted out . |
| 30 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |