Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 2 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 3 | Poor bus services have already been identified by new town bosses who want to carry out a full traffic survey with interested bodies , including Lothian Regional Council . |
| 4 | British Telecom wants to set up a global framework which can offer a complete telecommunications service package to multinationals by reselling spare capacity on the international private line circuits of other US carriers . |
| 5 | He publicly endorsed the death sentence on Salman Rushdie — an act which oddly failed to get him charged with the crime of incitement to murder — and wants to set up a Muslim parliament . |
| 6 | It wants to set up a local-government commission to review the structure of local government across England . |
| 7 | The WWF and the University of Joensuu wants to set up a dozen seal reservations in the area , organising volunteers to hand-feed seals with protein-rich food to ensure that they reach breeding age . |
| 8 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 9 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 10 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 11 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 12 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 13 | When a floorboard is difficult to lift or when you only want to take up a short piece , a floorboard saw is helpful . |
| 14 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 15 | When the chief executive wants to take up a new product , he selects one of them as ‘ project engineer ’ . |
| 16 | We want to bring up a nice girl , not a little pig . |
| 17 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 18 | The US wanted to set up a working group to study these costs , but other nations rejected the proposal . |
| 19 | I can , yes I can remember having this sort of question about people with jugs and they wanted to measure out a certain amount , but they have n't got any markings for this certain amount and that awful |