Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to meet them again in a hurry . |
| 2 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 3 | The Poet evidently wants to detach himself totally from the Friend , stand away from him as if he might suffer corruption or contagion by going any nearer . |
| 4 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 5 | ‘ In a moment I want to take you across to the Rosemount wing . |
| 6 | Oh very much so because I mean all through this er through this period the communists are making , they , they want to unite themselves firmly with the peasants |
| 7 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't want to do something just for the sake of it , I do n't really care about being on the Council , it 's just that I wanted to do something about those wretched caravans . |
| 9 | We have already mapped out our route but we do n't want to give anything away to the others . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't want to ride anything else in the Champion after this performance , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 12 | You may have included words that do n't fit , and you may want to remove them immediately from the list , so as to avoid confusion when you check . |
| 13 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 14 | He wanted to hit him all over the face with his fists , to smash away his stupid smile , to stop him talking . |
| 15 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |
| 16 | Tomorrow , she promised — not of course that Ven was likely to want to accompany her anywhere for a third day in a row — but tomorrow she would insist on going sightseeing on her own . |
| 17 | He wanted to smash William 's teeth in , he wanted to kick him all round the airfield . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 19 | Now having said all this you know let's not identify with these too much like the that 's me you know okay , it gives you an incl an idea of your in of your stance where what sort of attitude philosophy and behaviours you prefer to have within a group , okay and if you match those back to what we saw in the group erm then it 's not surprising that the group got on so well together and you know we did n't have too much conflict with the amount of team workers involved because nobody in there wanted to upset anybody else in the team . |
| 20 | One media independent says : ‘ If C4 Daily was a newspaper , it would be a quality , and the company seems to want to move it more towards the Daily Mail . |