Example sentences of "[conj] want [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROLL UP For girls that want to achieve the brilliant set looks which have been inspiring us lately but do n't want to roll their hair everyday , Zotos may have the answer . |
| 2 | Any parish that wants to take the impending discussion on women 's ordination with real seriousness and responsibility will want to make this booklet widely available . ’ |
| 3 | Any parish that wants to take the impending discussion on woman 's ordination with real seriousness and responsibility will want to make this booklet widely available . |
| 4 | Euratom failed completely to control and direct developments , or indeed to resist governments that wanted to weaken the supranational element in this policy area . |
| 5 | The 1964 company who , like the Ffestiniog , have their headquarters in Porthmadog and want to re-open the defunct Welsh Highland line northwards back to Dinas Junction and possibly Caernarfon , have together with Gwynedd Council issued a statement condemning the FR . |
| 6 | It is not a good model for human relations , and some of the people who are aflame with political zeal and want to put the entire world to rights are in fact hell to live with . |
| 7 | And you put up with his way of making decisions for you , even if , one day , you wake up and want to wear the green skirt he hates , watch Morse which he ca n't stand … |
| 8 | In turn , clients ' expectations are growing ; they are more informed , more knowledgeable about the process , much more likely to adopt an open style , and want to know the key facts , expecting a high level of overall professionalism . |
| 9 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 10 | She stayed in the shower as long as she dared , knowing she must get out soon but wanting to postpone the inevitable . |
| 11 | But I soon learnt to get those cows out without messing up my nice clean cow shed , what we used to do , because wanting to get the first one out very quietly , I used to put my hand on the tail , press the tail to the backside and push her out ! |
| 12 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |