Example sentences of "[adv] want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you suffered an injury — like a slipped disc , a dislocated knee — or if you needed a hip replacement or maybe something even more serious , you 'd naturally want to go into hospital without a long delay . |
| 2 | Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft . |
| 3 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |
| 4 | I did not want to go to prison again . |
| 5 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 6 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 7 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 8 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 9 | One Friday afternoon , I looked steadily at one of those great green trees for ten minutes , and knew then I would not want to teach in grammar schools for ever . |
| 10 | The boat was too small for a long journey , and I did not want to die at sea . |
| 11 | We do not want to talk about south-west regional cream instead of Devonshire produce , roast beef and north-east regional pudding or Greater Manchester hot-pot . |
| 12 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 13 | Suppose a company has a training policy that women over 50 and men over 55 will not be reimbursed correspondence course fees because the company does not want to pay for training unless it can get at least ten years benefit from that training . |
| 14 | On the other hand she did not want to stand until dawn , and she did want the French words to go on being threaded together . |
| 15 | I had tried to tell him that the world had changed drastically , but Bonefish did not want to believe in change . |
| 16 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a very distressing case , We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 18 | We do n't know what the full facts are , and I would not want to comment in detail , ’ he added . |
| 19 | We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail . |
| 20 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 21 | Management did not want to experiment with work reorganization , employee control and management style ‘ in a corner ’ . |
| 22 | Perhaps the relationship is still continuing , but the boyfriend does not want to know about pregnancy . |
| 23 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 24 | Erm , women do n't just want to write about knitting , erm |
| 25 | MICHAEL Caine does not just want to star in front of the camera , he wants to star behind it . |
| 26 | They no longer want to go to school . |
| 27 | But if , like me , you just want to fall in love with a beautiful island , give Kuta a miss and try the fantastic resorts of Nusa Dua and Sanur . |
| 28 | ‘ You just want to talk about music and fucking and dope and that 's all . |
| 29 | I just want to go to bed and get to sleep . |
| 30 | ‘ I just want to go to sleep . |