Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 2 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 3 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 4 | I want to hear from the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East , because the Opposition must now come clean . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 6 | Both sides need the points if they want to finish in the top two . ’ |
| 7 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 8 | With qualification for the USA ‘ 94 finals an impossibility Bingham , however , wants to finish among the top four in Group Three . |
| 9 | Wally , Wally I 'm sorry to interrupt you , colleagues , you 're starting to babble a bit , I know you all want to get to the European Fair and the wine and the cheese and all that sort of thing just bear with us for about ten minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to return to the nice friendly atmosphere we used to have at this club with Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison in charge and chairman Albert Alexander , who left everyone to get on with their job . |
| 11 | Erm now what I want to say at the very very end is a quick observation by Beatrix Campbell who wrote a book about the Cleveland er child sex abuse scandal which took place in the late 1980's . |
| 12 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 13 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 14 | COMPANIES wanting to break into the vast Russian consumer market have been told to cater for five distinct groups with very different tastes : Kuptsi , Cossacks , Students , Businessmen and Russian Souls . |
| 15 | What do you want to do for the next two weeks ? |
| 16 | Anyway , you 'll probably want to start with the normal day-to-day stuff — it 's on disks that are kept in the cabinet . |
| 17 | Sit down with a pen and paper and make a list of the things you have wanted to do in the past few years . |
| 18 | Should Linda want to move over the next seven years , she does not have to worry because the loan is fully portable . |
| 19 | One of the reasons for this , she explains , is that quite a lot of the small and medium-size firms in her area ( Hampshire , Dorset and Sussex ) do not want to recruit from the Big Six where most of the redundancies have been made . |
| 20 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 21 | So far most of the conclusions are broadly in line with other studies , but there is a brief , but interesting , discussion about carers ' groups , where the authors state that , contrary to the present emphasis professionals give to self-help , ‘ the last thing ( carers ) wanted to do with the little free time they had was to talk about elderly people ’ . |
| 22 | They almost all wanted to stay at the fabulous old Hotel Mamounia , a place of wonderful gardens and lakes that had achieved fame when Winston Churchill came to paint there in the fifties . |