Example sentences of "[vb mod] want [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have Economy 7 and can use the lower-price electricity during the night , you may want to choose a machine fitted with a delay button . |
| 2 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 3 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 4 | You may be using some particular part in the spreadsheet that you consider to be unusual , er you may want to include a page reference , so that er , you can understand it again |
| 5 | In particular , a database user may want to search a file in a number of ways , according to a particular application . |
| 6 | You may want to stipulate a time limit for replies : to help with your catering arrangements : Please reply on or before May 8 , 1922 . |
| 7 | It is also generally a good idea to keep your notes short ; while you may want to keep a record of everything that might prove useful , your notes will seem unhelpful if you feel swamped with redundant information when you come to refer to them later . |
| 8 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 9 | On the other hand , you may want to write a book in which the element of comedy is much less strong . |
| 10 | If you are ill you may want to write a letter than can be read and re-read in the future . |
| 11 | But you may want to add a second ( perhaps en suite ) bathroom or to re-arrange the existing layout to squeeze in extra equipment , such as a bidet or separate shower . |
| 12 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 13 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 14 | He introduced the Deer Act and spoke seventy-seven times during the Wildlife and Countryside Bill ( ‘ I can not understand why anyone should want to shoot a curlew . |
| 15 | ‘ Strange you should want to take a look at this place . |
| 16 | I was sad and angry that he should want to place a bolt and go so radically against the grain ; sympathetic with Dave 's strong conviction ; peeved that my own route — Centrefold — had been usurped . |
| 17 | She is my maid and her fingers are much smaller than yours and then she 'll want to put a salve on it and … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 19 | You 'll want to have a piece of Ontario wrapped to take home with you . |
| 20 | You 'll want to know a source of Gordon 's gin , angostura bitters , streaky bacon . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you might want to take a look at young Timothy here . |
| 22 | For example , you might want to take a country record and copy the inflections of some singer 's voice ; doing that will give you something completely new . |
| 23 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 24 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 25 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
| 26 | Typically , a software developer might want to write a word processing program which will be compatible with another company 's spreadsheet program so that data and files can be passed between the two programs . |
| 27 | Well , you might want to knit a dolman sweater , a bolero or a cross-over cardigan . |
| 28 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 29 | ‘ He said it was ten to one the Huns would fly over our field , since the two-seater was on reconnaissance and they 'd want to take a picture or something . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you spent your time doing 25 laps with a thousand gear changes , sweating in a flame-proof suit and helmet then you 'd want to look a bit glamorous at the end of the day , ’ she said , The splendid lady in charge of raffle tickets for RUKBA seemed very knowledgeable about Washington . |