Example sentences of "want [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want to sit in court , it feels unpleasant . |
| 3 | So why do I want to fall in love again ? |
| 4 | Mr , sorry I you may want to comment in fact about the relationship of these figures and the emerging policy in Cleveland . |
| 5 | ‘ It is a very distressing case , We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 6 | We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail , ’ he added . |
| 7 | We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 8 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 9 | Now I feel it is very hurtful when you have a boyfriend and when he finds out he does n't want to know in case the child calls him Daddy . |
| 10 | I do n't want to appear in front a judge in his first five years then . |
| 11 | Do you want to walk in safety in the countryside |
| 12 | What I really wanted to say I did n't want to put in writing . |
| 13 | It was your company that I did n't want to swear in front of |
| 14 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 15 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 16 | My Lords , I I I do n't want to intervene in family quarrels , but er surely the point that the Noble Lord , Lord was making was that there is no section er two A i in in force a at at the present time . |
| 17 | Is the Prime Minister aware , first , that people will want to study in detail what he has brought back and will need far more time to do that , and , secondly , that a treaty committing us to a European union probably represents an even bigger change than our entry into the Community in 1975 , the long-term effect of which over many Parliaments will be great ? |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow raised a number of other important issues that we shall want to consider in Committee and , I hope , in response to consultation . |
| 19 | Indeed , the better the course , the more the students will feel welcome to offer their own insights , reactions and ideas to which the staff will want to respond in turn . |
| 20 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 21 | Well for most people erm I mean they say to me , I do n't want to be the richest man at Millford Hill , in other words I do n't want to save in retirement indefinitely , but you are intending some capital growth as well , cos if you do n't have capital growth , you do n't protect your investment . |
| 22 | You do n't want to get in debt . |
| 23 | do you want to set a date for another meeting just now or do you want to get in touch later George ? |
| 24 | I do n't know if I 'd want to stay in teaching , I 'd quite like to have my own nursery school . |
| 25 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 26 | The first point that one would want to make in criticism of the gens theory is that , even if descent groups such as the Iroquois gens appear as undifferentiated communities from the point of view of an outsider , this is not so from the point of view of the member of a gens . |
| 27 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |