Example sentences of "[noun sg] want [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal example for the latter occurs when the shareholder wants to borrow on the security of his shares . |
| 2 | Worst of all , Labour wants to transfer from the House of Commons its most basic power , the power over the nation 's finances . |
| 3 | It can also include information that any lawyer wants to share with the rest of the team . |
| 4 | The President wants to travel to the Republic for a very special day . |
| 5 | Miss Armstrong said Labour wanted to work alongside the existing CTCs to bring them within the mainstream education system . |
| 6 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 7 | The cat wants to get down the stairs without to disturb the lion . |
| 8 | The British Museum wants to recover for the nation the 2,000-year-old bronze Roman plaque which fetched £26,000 at auction after its removal one night from land in North Yorkshire . |
| 9 | Our greatest joy is that the twenty-one-year-old wants to go into the car industry . ’ |
| 10 | The reason I 'm I 'm bringing this up is that the gentleman in question wants to come to the parish council and put on a a short video of the electricity board 's er er activities in this area . |
| 11 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 12 | Andy Mutch says every young lad wants to play in the top league and he is looking forward to it . |
| 13 | The German wanted to know about the man . |
| 14 | All of our group wanted to go to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , and I decided I wanted to be a high-altitude free-fall parachutist . |
| 15 | Why would a political assembly want to abdicate from the full sovereignty which in principle it possesses , and set limits on its own future actions ? |
| 16 | However , sources say the job 's more titular than real with Waxman wanting to stay in the Boston area . |
| 17 | The team members previously worked on developing the software optimising compilers for Elbrus , and it is this technology in particular that SunPro wants to take to the US . |
| 18 | Miners in Nottinghamshire and in the surrounding area want to work towards the future . |
| 19 | Second , the student wanted to appeal to the rational side of John , to that side of him which could see the futility of his actions . |
| 20 | A simple example will make the differences plain : suppose a testator wanted to arrange for the payment of a sum of money to a certain person . |
| 21 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 22 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 23 | As such , it is the most important element in the structure of the clause as a message because it represents the very information that the speaker wants to convey to the hearer . |
| 24 | When vicar , Derek Sawyer retires , the church wants to sell off the land for housing . |
| 25 | Starting was as fraught as ever or even more so because of large craft wanting to come through the start line but it must be said that the cruiser operators were generally very cooperative throughout the race . |
| 26 | Why does the alien want to get into the spaceship ? |
| 27 | You could argue that some of them work outside the home because they have to , for financial reasons , but I think it 's indisputable that a ever-growing number want to work outside the home and I think it 's very important that they should be allowed the scope to do so . |
| 28 | Back channel behaviour , which can also include nods and sentence completions is used when a participant wants to indicate to the person speaking that he should continue . |
| 29 | Therefore , if an employer wants to sue on the basis of a continuing obligation which lasts after determination and requires a remedy other than damages , he should not accept the repudiation but treat the contract as if alive . |
| 30 | I shall be brief , as I understand that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman and the Minister want to reply to the debate . |