Example sentences of "want [to-vb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime .
2 CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim .
3 If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning .
4 He wants to expose it before the whole world , but he needs your help . ’
5 But officials at both the DES and the HSE want to turn it into a specialist advisory group to the HSE .
6 But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright .
7 Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises .
8 When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months .
9 Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us .
10 But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season .
11 Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute
12 When you can use video as another classroom aid , when and how it suits the language programme you are teaching , you almost certainly wo n't want to use it in the same way at the same time each week .
13 and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ?
14 And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place .
15 Somebody wanted to buy it as a non-worker but I said well I said we 'd ordered a part for it so
16 Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home .
17 She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme .
18 I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ?
19 Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems .
20 They wanted to make it into a special dress but it would not come right .
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