Example sentences of "want [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great danger of the last days of the campaign is that those voters who wish to punish the Tories , but do not want Labour , may not understand the situation . |
| 2 | Of the results declared by 1am , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ This proves that the country does n't want Labour . |
| 3 | I am a Labour supporter with many friends carrying cards , and , despite having observed the ‘ anti-Labour virulence ’ of the SNP , I do want Labour to come together with the Nats , the Liberals , the Greens , the Unions , the churches , the mosques , the synagogues , Uncle Tom Cobbley and all . |
| 4 | So , got there , did n't want bloody car . |
| 5 | ‘ Even with respect to the equality issue there will still only be a difference of degree ; the Conservatives might not want the income distribution to become far less equal than it is , and the Labour Party might not want complete equality of income distribution . ’ |
| 6 | You could add a smaller top tier of curtains which could be drawn at night should you want complete privacy . |
| 7 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 8 | ‘ We do not want economic war with Russia , ’ Mr Otsason stresses . |
| 9 | I do n't want Adai to die , too . ’ |
| 10 | And what if they do n't want each other ? |
| 11 | I really did n't want that . |
| 12 | Above all else I did n't want that . |
| 13 | But they ( Yello ) did n't want that , and they were in on everything . |
| 14 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 15 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 16 | If he told Mr Jackson then he 'd come and take me to Combe Court , and I do n't want that . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want that disaster to happen ’ . |
| 18 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 19 | Dot did n't want that . |
| 20 | She did n't want that door to open any further . |
| 21 | ‘ Great , but they do n't want that tree cutting down . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want that cat in here , ’ Ma said , ‘ I might want to do all sorts of jobs and cat gets under my feet . |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't want that kind of custom . ‘ |
| 24 | I know the world does n't want that for Britain . |
| 25 | You would not want that ! |
| 26 | ‘ Jimmy would n't want that . |
| 27 | If she admitted that Ryan smoked her parents would probably break them up and she did n't want that . |
| 28 | You might want that to happen one night . |
| 29 | And I said , ‘ Why do you want that ? ’ |
| 30 | I said , I do n't want that to happen . |