Example sentences of "[pers pn] want [to-vb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I want to include some background music . |
| 2 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 3 | In this chapter , I want to examine some sites which hold a particular attraction for me and , remembering Allen Watkins ' account of how his father had classified sites according to the four elements , I have chosen representatives of three of these — earth , water and air . |
| 4 | To explore what I mean further , I want to examine some data collected as part of a larger project looking at children and television . |
| 5 | This morning , too , she had said to her father , ‘ I want this afternoon off ; I want to do some shopping . ’ |
| 6 | I want to do some scuba , for Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 7 | If I want to do some slap bass or play some very fast , light jazzy stuff , I 'd probably have to wear the bass quite high up , almost Mark King height , to really be comfortable . |
| 8 | She went in , and , though he was not thinking of Ireland , said , " I want to ask some questions . |
| 9 | Listen , I want to grab some supper . |
| 10 | I want to get some work done . ’ |
| 11 | I want to get some petrol . |
| 12 | I want to get some feel of how serious it is . |
| 13 | I want to get some sleep , not indulge in erotic horseplay — after all , you might blackmail me after , ’ he said cuttingly . |
| 14 | I said I 'd do it , and I want to get some sputum samples for analysis to make sure he has n't got a chest infection . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Region I want to make some comments about the UNISON er section of the report , because er I think it 's concerning me that er we 're basically not getting our act together . |
| 17 | And while you go straight back to the hotel I want to buy some road maps . ’ |
| 18 | Oh yeah I want to buy some Jeyes Jeyes fluid . |
| 19 | Zapp is impatient of other academics with tentative minds , who begin articles , ‘ I want to raise some questions about soand-so . ’ |
| 20 | By looking in detail at the different responses this process elicited , I want to raise some questions about reading as a specific social activity . |
| 21 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 22 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 23 | " I wanted to preserve some grouse , Fairfax said doubtfully . |
| 24 | ‘ But I wanted to do some scuba ! ’ he said in outrage . |
| 25 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 26 | I wanted to base some comments about the UNISON 's er , section of the report because er , I think it 's |
| 27 | Yeah , no no I w I ate , that was my dinner , I ate that before I was pissed and that was my bloody dinner , I wanted to get some chips no one would walk down the chippie with me . |
| 28 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not down , I 'm still grazing the mountain but I wanted to get some planting done . ’ |
| 30 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |