Example sentences of "[adv] want [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might rarely want to roll the treble off the neck pickup , but you can take treble off the bridge pickup , if it 's a little hairy for you , and still be sure of a full-treble sound on the neck pickup when you hit the switch hard left . |
| 2 | They 'd badly want to find the car to forestall any possible inquiries about an abandoned vehicle , and to remove all evidence of my presence . |
| 3 | Staughton J. thought that members of the business community would especially want to know the people with whom they were dealing and whether there was a parent company which would not allow its subsidiary to default . |
| 4 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 5 | And we did not want to miss the opportunity of having such a wonderful day , complete with the white wedding car . |
| 6 | But no , I do not want to take the chance myself in case it turns out to be a family weakness . |
| 7 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |
| 8 | Gillray , in common with the vast majority of his public , did not want to take the Jacobin side . |
| 9 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 10 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 11 | According to Campaigns Director Andrew Lees , : " Given the potentially broad scope of such " areas " , the obstructive official has ample opportunity to rebuff requests by anyone whose request is not specific enough to penetrate the bureaucratic defences of a body which does not want to release the information . " |
| 12 | She did not want to cultivate the snob image . |
| 13 | I do not want to see the election lost on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 14 | We would not want to see the scheme a held up or at least , the timetable that we could set down . |
| 15 | Although it has kept NATO 's military command at arm 's length all these years , France does not want to see the Americans , still the basis of Europe 's security and stability , pull out completely . |
| 16 | I do not want to see the World . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not want to see the goalkeeper go off . |
| 18 | Ĺeonie did not want to see the ambulance from the clinic arrive . |
| 19 | Voters do not want to see the Tories achieve their ultimate goal the destruction of the NHS , the welfare state and a return to Victorian-style society . |
| 20 | We do not want to transform the world once again into a place for religious fighting . |
| 21 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 22 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 23 | I start to speak , but I do not want to lose the smoke . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not want to labour the failures of the past but I do want to emphasise that many of the problems that are now being tackled are the legacy of past management failure . ’ |
| 25 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 26 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 27 | Assistant chief leisure services officer Mick Hannon said the Council did not want to replace the competitions already being held . |
| 28 | He does not want to say the words out loud . |
| 29 | The polls show that about 70 per cent of American troops do not want to risk the lives of American troops to achieve such goals . |
| 30 | Although it was their wood , a place where they often came , Libby felt herself to be an intruder , she did not want to disturb the figure by the water , who was now breaking pieces of stick and dropping them at his feet . |