Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to see you in proper uniform today , Sharpe , today ! ’ |
| 2 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I want to help them to enlightened self-expression , and to develop their imaginations — to rid themselves of repressions through self-expression . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 9 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 10 | I want to get you in three-quarter profile . ’ |
| 11 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 12 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 13 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 14 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 15 | When I asked her things like that , she did n't want to tell me on other occasions , she said I know that I ca n't tell you . |
| 16 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 17 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |
| 18 | He also wanted to dress her in warm wraps , soft furs and the finest of leather boots . |
| 19 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 20 | But according to a report in The Builder , some architects protested against the competition , while P. L. Hardwick wanted to limit it to British architects . |