Example sentences of "[verb] want [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Neil had the baby upside-down and was smacking him to make him cry — having been born , he no longer seemed to want to survive in the harsh world outside his mother 's warm body . |
| 2 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 3 | Any conscript who may have wanted to go to the Gulf would have had to volunteer or to join the Foreign Legion , the paratroops or the naval infantry — units which are all made up entirely of volunteers . |
| 4 | At one time she might have wanted to sit among the crowd , to escape from the prying eyes , but she would never have had the confidence to say so . |
| 5 | But there will be no compensation for those who might have wanted to deal during the suspension period . |
| 6 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 7 | I was more of an outsider than ever , but something in me must still have wanted to belong to the family because I was still making deliberate attempts to communicate with the other members . |
| 8 | Mr Clarke seems to want to go through the whole er litigation process , what do you think about er his decision ? |
| 9 | Mr Chirac seems to want to wait for the presidential election in 1995 . |
| 10 | It is unnerving to want to smile at the interviewer only to discover that your face has set and feels too stiff to move . |
| 11 | In some cases population intermingled there 's bound to be conflict whatever happens , it seems to me that these problems can only be solved , first of all by ensuring that all eth ethnic groups have the right to their own culture , their own language , their own religion and so on and to exercise them in their own territory , but they 're not discriminated again in jobs and housing and education , er and then also as you say to help with state sponsored finance people who do decide that they want to migrate , that they do n't want to live in somebody else 's Republic , that they do want to move across the border into , as it were , their own Republic . |
| 12 | I did want to go to the boutique . |
| 13 | ‘ I did want to ask about the photographs for the item on Herbal Remedies , ’ one of the part-time editors said . |
| 14 | They did want to know about the recession . |
| 15 | In relation to erm the second erm erm motion erm we did want to add at the end that Her Majesty 's Inspector of Pollution incessantly environment |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , as you know , Hilary did want to transfer to the Comprehensive for his GCE year , ’ said Mrs Frome . |
| 17 | There is , perhaps , the beginning of a choice here : a choice that confirms that Mr Clinton really is a new Democrat , really is suspicious of old Democratic liberalism , and really does want to govern from the solid , decent centre of America . |
| 18 | Having finally decided that it does want to get into the merchant semiconductor market , IBM Corp says it is looking to arrange a number of semiconductor industry alliances , with the aim of becoming a world top 10 company in chip sales . |
| 19 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 20 | There had been little dispute about anything else Thorfinn had wanted to do since the day he was told of the fighting in Lothian . |
| 21 | He had wanted to go to the convent many times , but common sense and will-power had won the day until then . |
| 22 | She had wanted to go on the stage ; acting had always been her forte , and although she might be insignificant to look at , she had a beautiful voice and perfect diction . |
| 23 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 24 | Capron was also the fifth face in the photograph that Urquhart had wanted to take from the Nowaks ' house . |
| 25 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 26 | His solicitor Bob Emuss said that the defendant , who until February had been living in Surrey , had wanted to move to the Kingsley area . |
| 27 | He had only been thirteen then , but had wanted to burst into the room and strike his mother to the ground . |
| 28 | But it also seemed that the Treasury had wanted to forget about the competition , as three days later Hall sent them a long and detailed reminder about its progress . |
| 29 | Here was his beloved Mr Ted , the battered , forbidden stuffed bear that Sweetheart had wanted to consign to the bonfire . |
| 30 | ‘ But if he had wanted to disappear with the diamonds , ’ she persisted , ‘ we 'd still be looking for him now . ’ |