Example sentences of "[adv] want to do [det] " in BNC.

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1 You will only want to do this on rare occasions .
2 Jarvis did n't much want to do any of these things , but he did want to go up north and admire the old Glasgow PIE , not to mention going back to ride once more San Francisco 's BART , which tunnels deeply through the rock under the Bay .
3 How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ?
4 Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence .
5 I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that .
6 However , Owen did not want to do that if it could be avoided .
7 But , erm , you may not , you may not want to do that .
8 The Chiefs of Staff did not want to do this , and the Defence Committee was worried lest the Korean conflict should divert attention from other danger-spots in Asia and blind Britain to the risk to which it was exposed in Europe .
9 The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising .
10 I did not want to do this and did n't go .
11 Do you not want to do this ?
12 Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else .
13 Go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . ’
14 And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views .
15 If you just want to do some basic word processing , for example , you really do n't need a 50MHz 486DX with 8Mb or RAM and a 200Mb hard disk .
16 If you just want to do some basic word processing , for example , you really do n't need a 50MHz 486DX with 8Mb of RAM and 200Mb hard disk .
17 Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right
18 Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute .
19 ‘ I 've always wanted to do that , ’ said Grimma , in a satisfied voice .
20 I 've always wanted to do that . ’
21 And then we 're going to do a new Dow text and a new Scotch-Roman for their headlines and I 've always wanted to do that .
22 I have always wanted to do this as I love my hair and can do a lot with it .
23 But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album .
24 Now capitalist landlords might be the development certainly in terms of production you , you might be disrupting a viable , commercial , capitalist orientated economy , and would you really want to do that ?
25 Do n't really want to do that .
26 But the ones who went into it professionally , I see them often on the telly advertising things and I do n't really want to do that .
27 And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on .
28 So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight .
29 So what I really want to do this month , well what I really want to do this month , is to lose some weight .
30 And if I 'm saying I really want to do less for the cracker bar now , because that was hard pushed .
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