Example sentences of "[modal v] want [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally there is a strong reason for weaning from the breast as the mother may want to return to work , or may need to be separated from the child for some reason . |
| 2 | There are economies of scale to be made and you may want to communicate with others . |
| 3 | Perhaps just a couple of others , you may want to think about things like Questions . |
| 4 | Mr , sorry I you may want to comment in fact about the relationship of these figures and the emerging policy in Cleveland . |
| 5 | for instance , you may want to know about training , holidays or canteen facilities ( see p. 27 on gathering background information ) ; |
| 6 | It is clear why , if one wishes to remain within the Christian context , one should want to side with women ( and women-identified men ) against the ‘ male ’ establishment . |
| 7 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , it 's more than likely you 'll want to arrange for Doreen to take over from me , ’ she pointed out as this thought began to seep into her mind , then she hastened to add , ‘ And speaking of the office work , I 'd better go back and get on with the job . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now Mr Connon , I 'll want to talk at length to you about this , you realize . |
| 10 | I expect you 'll want to talk about computers later but there 's a simple computer game which , which shows a screen with thirty-six numbers from one to thirty-six . |
| 11 | If the recovery is faltering he 'll clearly want to be more keen to cut interest rates , and also he 'll want to take into account the effect of any tax increases he may introduce in his budget . |
| 12 | I suppose you 'll want to write to Lily ? ’ |
| 13 | I guess they 'll want to know about schools , qualifications etc but is there a particular order in which these should be presented ? ? |
| 14 | Perhaps I would n't like to stay there very long , because , as I said , I might want to go to school again . |
| 15 | To build up his pot , because he might have a bad month , or he might want to go on holiday . |
| 16 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 17 | If there 's a chance you might want to move to Windows later on , bear in mind that Windows apps , like some games , are real gluttons when it comes to hard disk space . |
| 18 | You might want to think about things like that . |
| 19 | ( Who 'd want to go to bed with roses anyway , what a mad idea ! ) ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know if I 'd want to stay in teaching , I 'd quite like to have my own nursery school . |
| 21 | I ca n't think that one person in a car on their own would want to go to MacDonalds too often . |
| 22 | I would want to go to France . |
| 23 | So so , you 'd you 'd say that you would want to go to Ingleston ? |
| 24 | Apart from anything else , if prisons were places where criminals had to work , fewer of them would want to go to prison . |
| 25 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 26 | There is little doubt that the Serbs would want to retain most of what they now occupy , whereas the Croats would want to return to frontiers drawn up by the late Marshal Tito . |
| 27 | And only a derisory 3% said they would want to live in Oxford after the war . |
| 28 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 29 | FA chief executive Graham Kelly said the ruling body would want to speak to Moore 's family before planning anything . |
| 30 | The first point that one would want to make in criticism of the gens theory is that , even if descent groups such as the Iroquois gens appear as undifferentiated communities from the point of view of an outsider , this is not so from the point of view of the member of a gens . |