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 | Some Italian once wrote that the critic secretly wants to kill the writer . |
| 4 | He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He only wants to see the child enjoy herself with her friends . ’ |
| 7 | There is no involvement in politics , we merely want to serve the public , ’ he added . |
| 8 | In the meantime I merely want to emphasise the point I was making about change . |
| 9 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 10 | He obviously wants to see the Christians in the capital city of the empire . |
| 11 | The committee sensibly want to remove the child from crown court trials , but their solution of prelimi nary hearings is questionable . |
| 12 | ‘ We very much want to trace the driver of that vehicle because they might hold vital information which could result in this robbery being solved , ’ added the spokesman . |
| 13 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
| 14 | Nigel Lawson rightly wanted to join the exchange rate mechanism two years ago — as did Sir Geoffrey Howe . |
| 15 | Sharpe only wanted to reach the road . |
| 16 | Trainer Lord Huntingdon said : ‘ The Queen so wanted to win the race again that we originally had two in it , but we took Piquant out and relied on Set The Fashion . |
| 17 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 18 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 20 | Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal held that whether the officer had taken possession was a question for the jury , and that the answer depended on whether he had made his mind up to take possession so that they would not be removed , or whether he had an open mind and merely wanted to stop the driver getting away without being questioned . |
| 22 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
| 23 | I suddenly wanted to see the work I was doing laid out in front of me . |
| 24 | He noted that the Clinton administration apparently wanted to make the drops in the dark , from high altitudes and without ground support , ‘ so the likelihood is that a lot of the supplies will end up outside the targeted area . ’ |
| 25 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 26 | The fire brigade reappeared , bringing them some council inspector , who obviously wanted to evacuate the house . |
| 27 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 28 | The extension of the offence to include obtaining possession or control will have the result that if Kilham , although pretending that he only wanted to borrow the horse , had in fact intended to deprive the owner permanently , he would be guilty under the clause , because he obtained possession of the horse . |
| 29 | Their solicitor told the court they only wanted to frighten the saboteur and they were sorry he 'd been injured . |
| 30 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |