Example sentences of "want to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 2 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 3 | I mean you do n't want to kind of put them off too much erm |
| 4 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 5 | Right I mean I do n't want to sort of pry into how you do your business that the in the the getting of that information that 's that is relatively straightforward , is it ? |
| 6 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 7 | Yeah so do you want to sort of make a decision now , or wait till next week or |
| 8 | erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that |
| 9 | you 'd want to sort of , you know |
| 10 | so I mean I should want to sort of come home sort of then you know , er |
| 11 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 12 | Also one would have to work out whether peasants were subsistence minded in that how that once they 'd achieved their subsistence was that all they would want or would they really want to sort of erm work harder and start sharing all their tools and implements in order to gain an even higher productivity . |