Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 2 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 3 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 4 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 5 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 6 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 7 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 8 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 9 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |
| 10 | Left : If you want to replace a dishwasher that 's over 10 years ' old , or want to fit one into a kitchen with imperial size 500 mm wide base units , you 'll need a machine that measures 50 cm rather than the usual 60 cm wide . |
| 11 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 12 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 13 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 14 | And now they 've changed their mind and want to put me in a caravan . |
| 15 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 16 | Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one . |
| 17 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 18 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 19 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 20 | Only cos he wants to have you in a bath . |
| 21 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 22 | A a a member of staff may feel that they want to say something about a kid , and it does not necessarily have to agree with what the kid |
| 23 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 24 | Those of us who live and work in Northern Ireland would say that the feeling on the part of the community about bringing these matters to an end is not the result of any war-weary or defeatist feeling but because we want to bring them to an end and restore peace , and it is a very strong feeling . |
| 25 | But I know me own daughter well enough to know that she does n't want to lock herself inside a convent for the rest of her life . |
| 26 | Everyone 'll want to favour us with a well-wishing . |
| 27 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 28 | You may be surprised to find that she does n't want to shackle you with a ball and chain . |
| 29 | Perhaps I would n't want to do it before an audience but then I 've never performed for others . |
| 30 | if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it . |