Example sentences of "want [verb] [is] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's just got him out of prison after making all that money and going through all that shit for him , he finally comes home , and all he wants to do is watch the match on the telly . |
| 2 | Mm , we 'll rough it for a while , because I know the downers , the only thing that Mike wants to do is put the fence and the gate up the side |
| 3 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 4 | Er and basically what I want to do is to put the winner , the winning e exhibition into the new reception area , for the new erm office at Ruddington when it opens . |
| 5 | That first holiday away is a magical occasion , and the last thing you want to do is share the magic with a hotel load of families and grannies . |
| 6 | And so erm , the youth bus is , is trying to fill that gap , it 's not ideal , because what we actually want to do is get the advice centre to provide some information and to look at ways they can open up to young people . |
| 7 | Therefore what I want to do is to seek the support of the factories to er spread the word , to circulate the information necessary to all the schools in the area . |
| 8 | What we want to do is to calculate the stress which will just separate two adjacent layers of atoms inside the material . |
| 9 | Playing an active game can over-excite children to the point that all they want to do is play the game . |
| 10 | So one thing that I 'm sure we 'll want to do is to support the work of the Secondary Science Curriculum Review . |
| 11 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |