Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 2 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 3 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 4 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
| 5 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 6 | I do n't suppose Father Courtney will want to expose you to the temptations of the World and the Flesh a day longer than necessary . ’ |
| 7 | For someone of this persuasion , who does not want to attribute everything to the workings of power , the problem obviously arises of why the sexes should have distinctive linguistic subcultures at all . |
| 8 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 9 | I did n't want to place myself in the hands of someone who might insist on more than I was prepared to give . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't want to bore you with the details . |
| 11 | Mr , do you want to tell us about the delights of Hartlepool |
| 12 | ‘ They wanted to see them off the streets . ’ |
| 13 | when you wanted to do something with the keys or operate er horizontal , there was a machine and you had to go to the do it yourself . |
| 14 | In 1985 a smooth man ’ , a ‘ sophisticated hustler ’ appeared in Washington and approached North , saying he wanted to do something for the contras . |
| 15 | And he must be mad to want to shunt him into the sidings before throwing him an England shirt again . |
| 16 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |
| 17 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 18 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 19 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |