Example sentences of "[noun prp] want [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Monsieur Lemarchand wants to tie up all our affairs with some speed . ’ |
| 2 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 3 | The council 's Brian Whalen wants to find out what produces the fantastic display which dances across the arctic and subarctic skies . |
| 4 | It 's a battle every time Kathleen wants to go out with me , with that brother of hers as well as her mother . ’ |
| 5 | But if Ken wanted to sit in and watching the good results coming in |
| 6 | If Richard wanted to work off his consternation on me , it would be better if we were alone . |
| 7 | to Sue wanted to point out that er erm how well your staff had er worked on er that what they had done er er all over the town i in some instances er enabling people to get to their rights by you know , taking them to tribunals which is quite er time er er exercise . |
| 8 | I 'd guessed that Downes wanted to go back to his car to hide something , so I played along with all that hearing-aid rubbish . |
| 9 | But is n't , is n't that the quote at the beginning of your book , er , unsigned quote , erm , does n't that say something about how , how , you know , long aired radio biography of someone is very political or sort of er , disregard all of the important things they really done , and I do n't know , I do n't know if it 's er , pertinent erm , but obviously , in Freud , Freud wanted to set out to criticize Wilson erm , so he , you know , he went in with it . |
| 10 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 11 | Lucy wanted to back out , and now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But in the wings , British Telecom wants to get in on the act . |
| 14 | If America or Russia wanted to take over France 's place there , they were welcome to it . |
| 15 | Chen wanted to reach out and take Herrick by the throat and choke him to death , but first he had to get hold of the copy and get out with it . |
| 16 | Ruth wanted to reach out and pull him back , as if he were moving towards a precipice . |
| 17 | Well I think we 'd better leave them just to do what they like , cos I expect Gwen wants to get on with her dinner now . |
| 18 | Getting rid of Hunslet is probably 1 reason why Silver wants to buy back the ground . |
| 19 | It 's clear that neither Jane nor Grant want to split up but , in Jo 's view , they should stop living together if they want to save their relationship . |
| 20 | " I do n't think Stephen wants to go out . " |
| 21 | Or or indeed does Mr want to come in on vacancies ? |
| 22 | Lizzie wanted to go on doing it . |
| 23 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 24 | Remember , too , that the Croatian Serbs wanted to fight on after Mr Milosevic had decided he wanted peace . |
| 25 | Gulliver wanted to step down in August because of business commitments but was asked to carry on by chairman Wallace Mercer until the club had made a decision about a new stadium . |
| 26 | Mr wanted to come in before we agreed I think . |
| 27 | What Tolkien wanted to concentrate on , obviously , was death : more precisely perhaps on why people love this world and want so strongly to stay in it when it is an inescapable part of their nature ‘ to die and go we know not where ’ . |
| 28 | Robert wanted to go over to him , but judged it best to stay where he was . |
| 29 | When it 's all over Tyson wants to melt back into the crowd . |
| 30 | Well Mrs wants to come in and then |