Example sentences of "want [verb] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 2 | Those who want to get at the frozen part of their savings in the old currency will have to buy new currency from the central bank , at auctions where it will cost them well over its face value . |
| 3 | " We want to stop at the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , " she said , with the remnants of the French accent the nuns had carefully taught her . |
| 4 | Ah , well , we want to say at the bottom items one five seven and twenty four are two piece construction . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want to think about that , I do n't want to look at the actual scene , I 've got over it , have n't I ? … the way she died … and all that went before . |
| 6 | The SARFU wanted to play the test at Johannesburg 's Ellis Park , the biggest ground in the country , where gate receipts would be huge , while the ARFU wanted to play at the low altitude venues of either Durban 's King 's Park or Cape Town 's Newlands Stadium . |
| 7 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 9 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 10 | If I wanted to point at the put directory . |
| 11 | Look , he wanted to shout at the tumbling rooks , here is the only certain reality . |