Example sentences of "[verb] want [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 2 | Now I I I do n't think there 's any doubt about this Chairman that that particular group bears er comment from us er er part of the er Conservative resolutions made wants to acknowledge the fact that for the first time all parties , members of the parties have n't started to look in detail at these St Albans and many aspect , many aspects of the Consultants ' strategy of starting to appeal . |
| 3 | But I would equally say : ‘ Why would the defending team want to collapse the scrummage and give either three or six points away ? ’ |
| 4 | I suppose I 'd wanted to lure the boy into an acceptance of our ways and if pancakes were the bait , I 'd use it . |
| 5 | A Sunday newspaper had once revealed that he 'd wanted to marry a feminist and she 'd run off with a lesbian , which was why he had it in for both . |
| 6 | She 'd wanted to keep the army out of it as much as possible . |
| 7 | But Mr Chan seemed to want to pursue the matter . |
| 8 | As far as these cats were concerned , I have little doubt that nothing but positive r reinforcement would have been given because if they had been punished they simply would n't have done it , and they would have run away and it 's very much more difficult as a as a performer to have an animal w is n't going to want to do the act . |
| 9 | Assuming you are going to want to use the material as a normal part of a normal lesson , when you look at a drama you will be looking for short segments which can stand on their own sufficiently to make sense as an independent sequence . |
| 10 | I mean people are always going to want to want the convenience of er driving to a nearby established supermarket , but their profit margins will decline . |
| 11 | Mr Boren is thought to want to scrap the energy tax completely , and find the $10 billion from new spending cuts . |
| 12 | Mr Cash and his Friends of Bruges seem to want to fight a battle against federalism today which may not have to be fought at all . |
| 13 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 14 | Er I 've got the text of those here , I do n't propose to go through it all now , but if anybody er you know wants to have a look at that they 're they 're welcome . |
| 15 | But whatever the starting point may be , the researcher must be stimulated to want to pursue the investigation in the first place . |
| 16 | Major was understood to want to prevent the Commonwealth Conference in Harare in October from being dominated once more by the sanctions issue . |
| 17 | Now does anyone have want to have a guess what the next number might mean ? |
| 18 | Popes had rarely attended Councils , but Paul may have wanted to demonstrate the unity between himself and the bishops . |
| 19 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 20 | He may have wanted to enhance the League 's effectiveness . |
| 21 | Zuwaya said they would not have wanted to win an election that way ; and some Magharba — admittedly few , the majority being unquestioningly jubilant — said that just ends had been achieved by improper means . |
| 22 | The papers are his business — not that he 'd have wanted to start a fire . ’ |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) seems to want to treat the work force of the United Kingdom in the same way as he treats his sheep . |
| 24 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 25 | So I 'm sorry Mr Chairman if the report is doom and gloom but that is the situation that does prevail we will endeavour to work to the best of our ability , or the lack of it but please remember the constraints that we are under and if we have got any views , to stand , and if we do want to help the people in Dundee and we do want to stop the government pilfering the British Rail pension scheme |
| 26 | However , if you do want to give an incentive for early payments , consider a settlement rebate . |
| 27 | ‘ But we do want to create a pattern of rent differentials that will reflect rather better the relative values of different houses and flats . |
| 28 | President , colleagues , I am so proud and honoured to receive this gold badge , more so because this is the award given to me by you President , I do want to thank a number of people I also want to thank the regional secretary , Steve , who thank you , Steven , for your support and guidance . |
| 29 | ‘ But we do want to leave a legacy , and that means recording five really good albums . |
| 30 | Now I do n't necessarily want to stop all of it , but I do want to control the sort of mail I get . |