Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-production editing is a boon if you are uncertain as to what you will want to include in the final version of the video . |
| 2 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 3 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 4 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 5 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 7 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
| 8 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 9 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
| 10 | Do you do you want to comment on the lowest figure ? |
| 11 | I do n't really want to comment on the last issue really , I think we 've probably said enough on that , er the the issue of the effect on West Yorkshire . |
| 12 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 13 | ‘ If they want to go through the correct procedure and ask for a transfer , then so be it . ’ |
| 14 | Meese had simply said , ‘ All right , we want to go through the 1985 shipment … well , how the initiative began … then talk to him about this memo of the diversion of funds . ’ |
| 15 | and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book . |
| 16 | Furious Tory MPs now want to go to the High Court to force a new ballot . |
| 17 | I just want to go with the least amount of gear I can get away with , be able to troubleshoot it myself and keep it simple . |
| 18 | Alan Pretty , a team leader in personnel services at Lincolnshire SSD , believes it is very much a management move and is not for social workers who want to continue in the caring role . |
| 19 | She revealed in London that she wants to go with the Red Cross for a first-hand view of aid work . |
| 20 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 21 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 22 | ‘ Want to come on the Grand Canyon with me ? ’ |
| 23 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 24 | But as you may discover at the end of your course you 'll have a questionnaire to say how found it , how it 's gone on and of course in the past people have filled in questionnaires saying what they want to know about the legal aspect is all about wills . |
| 25 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 26 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 27 | D I think John er put this question fairly to conference , If the Tories want to behave like the Labour party did , then we 'll pay an electoral price for it . |
| 28 | In August Najibullah claimed that the PDPA would even countenance ‘ settling up a government that would include representatives of the political forces now outside the country , but who sincerely want to participate in the nationwide process of building a new Afghanistan ’ . |
| 29 | You want to talk about the English novel ? |
| 30 | I do n't know whether you want to talk about the whole area of our operation |