Example sentences of "[pers pn] want [verb] [adj] way " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | First , however , I want to compare two ways in which we can look at evolution . |
| 2 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 3 | I wanted to stay that way . |
| 4 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 5 | We have joined a centralised unitary state , and at some stage we shall have to ask the people , ‘ Do you want to go this way , or do you not ? ’ |
| 6 | Do you want to go this way and have a look ? |
| 7 | so if you doing that , doing that keep you up in the air , right , keep doing that you 'll go that way , when the helicopter 's you want to do that way , so obviously |
| 8 | That means that if you decide you want to go one way and he has other ideas , you have to convince him that your wish takes priority . |
| 9 | However , the signals can also be used to show how much you want to go that way , the harder one presses the stronger the signal and the more rapid the output to the computer . |
| 10 | If you know that a slightly longer sweater will make you look slimmer and you want to look that way , it is up to you to examine the diagram before you knit and work accordingly . |
| 11 | You want to be slim and you want to stay that way . |
| 12 | ‘ Scientists and engineers are devising ways of living that drop carbon dioxide emissions , but do we want to live that way ? ’ |
| 13 | We want to examine possible ways of making litigation affordable , perhaps by diverting the cost from the parties ( at least initially ) so that those who would otherwise find payment difficult , impossible or off-putting might be enabled to bring or defend an action . |
| 14 | They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . |
| 15 | The ad people know that girls are watching and that they can attract them and form their ideas by making the girl associate their product with a particular image — so that when she is looking at a hair gel in a chemist 's , that will conjure up for her the image of the model used to advertise it , and make her want to look that way herself , and want to buy it . |
| 16 | He understood more than had actually been said , and he wanted to find some way to ease her embarrassment . |