Example sentences of "we want [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because that 's not something we want to go through their Conference Office for if we only want to do a meeting , |
| 2 | ‘ We put a lot of money in and we want to maximise on our investment — and Nigel , perfect for us , is a major part of our future . |
| 3 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 4 | ‘ Now we want to build on our success by improving other estates . |
| 5 | Keep your head still a minute we want to look at your nutter . |
| 6 | The ADT London Marathon and charity go hand in hand , so we want to hear about your charity running experiences , whether at London or other events around the country . |
| 7 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 8 | My Mrs Hewitt from the Lake District was so nice and I felt she was an old friend , but we wanted to talk about our Christmas shopping , not books . |
| 9 | We simply had to tell Mazzin that his treatment of us and particularly of Frank was unacceptable to us and that we wanted to speak to his chef . |
| 10 | But it is certainly enough to make us want to persist with our exploration of this theory and to examine in some detail ( in Chapter 7 ) the various possible explanations for the effect . |
| 11 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |