Example sentences of "[adv] want [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to let her go . |
| 2 | The Minister has told us today that he does not want to let us know what his proposals will be when he goes into negotiations . |
| 3 | They 've got to see you sign the will or at least acknowledge it and in practice see you sign they do n't need to know what 's in the will they just want to see you sign but they 've got to be there it 's no good up the road as one witness did for not for me to her husband who was working in his shop witnessed the signature afterwards . |
| 4 | I just want to let you know that chief among my criticisms of this report , it is is that it is a total insult to all of you , who give of your time freely to a unique cause to which we all belong . |
| 5 | Karen co sorry I just want to do something go on . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wanted to let you know that I intend to resign my post at the District . ’ |
| 7 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 8 | As one who went through this situation recently , I ‘ feel ’ for you and I just wanted to let you know this . |
| 9 | I just wanted to let you know that in February , wo n't be hiding behind an OHP , erm I 'll be taking up a post with the European Commission , working with Aids services throughout Europe . |
| 10 | I think to talk like that is to just to want to let it go on and on and on . |
| 11 | Schemes such as the Carrier Technology Initiative , LINK and the Teaching Company Schemes will continue to be promoted , and Waldegrave clearly wants to see them grow . |
| 12 | If she really wants to let her take them in . |
| 13 | Half my clients do n't even want to let me know what they 're up to . |
| 14 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 15 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 16 | Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’ |
| 17 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 18 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 19 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 20 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 21 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 22 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 23 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 24 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 25 | She did n't want to see him leave . |
| 26 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose I just do n't want to see you hurt . ’ |
| 28 | You 've been good to me , Peter , I would n't want to see you hurt by having me around . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to see you hurt , ’ he said softly . |
| 30 | She knew how badly one sister had treated you ; she quite obviously did n't want to see you become associated with the other … ’ |