Example sentences of "[pers pn] want [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 2 | In this article , I want to acknowledge openly a number of tensions that I experience , and which I suspect others may recognise . |
| 3 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to stage either a Scotland versus England international or a British championship by the end of April , ’ said Farr . |
| 5 | Next , I want to set up a couple of special features which will probably be planted in containers . |
| 6 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 7 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to set up a club for keen fly fishermen , all those anglers who pursue game fish like trout and salmon . |
| 9 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 10 | I shall return to that point later , but I want to put down a clear marker now . |
| 11 | erm secondly , I want to say just a word about an idea that Gould , in particular , and Stanley had been fond of , namely the idea of species selection . |
| 12 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 13 | The problem is that I want to start up a shareware library , but I have no idea of how to obtain the shareware titles . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully . |
| 15 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 16 | I wanted to sniff around a little , and I always do that better on my own , without distractions . |
| 17 | Mr do you want to pick up a point ? |
| 18 | " D' you want to end up a field labourer ? |
| 19 | It made you want to shout out a warning , except that the shout , too , would be pulled into the stitches , given colour , made immobile , inaudible , part of the helpless horror . |
| 20 | Despite all the contrary opinions expressed in the play , the underlying message was that it is the mother 's right to choose whether she wants to bring up a child who is mentally handicapped , and that other people simply do not understand how the mother feels . |
| 21 | ‘ Look — the next time you want to set up a surveillance in London , do remember that we 're here to help . |
| 22 | You must tell them that you want to pick up a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 23 | When you have shared something like that , you want to find out a little more about those who have shared it with you . |
| 24 | Alternatives : Sainsbury 's Cotes du Rhone currently on special offer at £2.45 , or , if you want to show off a bit , Tescos ' Chateauneuf du Pape , ultra cheap at £4.99 . |
| 25 | So her parents were surprised when she announced she wanted to put together a photographic portfolio . |
| 26 | ‘ Last night she wanted to wrap up a pizza for him . |
| 27 | We would n't wish to do that , but nor would we want to open up a free for all . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But we want to flush out a buyer in the next few months . ’ |
| 30 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |