Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning .
2 No doubt they will want to interview you at some time .
3 Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ?
4 ‘ We do n't want to provide anything of that sort just yet .
5 He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable .
6 Oh you want to see me in four weeks ?
7 But er you want to see me in four weeks to see about that ?
8 Now I want to see you in four weeks again .
9 I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’
10 In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine .
11 ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’
12 By the year 2000 , the Government wants to see one in three school leavers entering a university or college .
13 I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose .
14 You want to know anything about that boat , you ask Nick , not me . ’
15 If you want to increase something by seven percent what do you multiply it by ?
16 I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes .
17 Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there .
18 So how much will th if you want to replace them by one pipe how much will this pipe have ?
19 The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage .
20 I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth .
21 I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth .
22 I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression .
23 So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four .
24 Then I would tell myself such ideas were unreasonable : why would an American half-poet want to betray me to any government agency ?
25 The positions of Byelorussia and Kazakhstan are less clear , while the Ukraine , with the nightmare of Chernobyl etched on its consciousness , wants to rid itself of those weapons .
26 ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added .
27 Share , the user group for IBM Corp mainframe users , reckons that no-one can afford to ignore the downsizing phenomenon any more , and wants to dedicate itself to such concepts as open systems and integration .
28 I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced .
29 ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’
30 Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest !
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