Example sentences of "want [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You say that you want total honesty from me , and then you throw me out when you get it ! |
| 2 | No you want dry hands cos if you touch the food with wet hands guess what happens ? |
| 3 | Oldham want 1.5 Mill . |
| 4 | they want normal speech , they do n't even people do n't even know it 's been going on . |
| 5 | Investors , especially foreign ones , want political stability , to go with economic growth . |
| 6 | That want economic benefits of Europe for the of the business world but have denied British workers the protection of European social legislation . |
| 7 | The chief reason for this visit happening at all is that the Soviet Union wants it to ; Soviet Foreign Minister , Edouard Sheverdnaze was in North Korea , putting pressure on his fellow Communists to reform ; the Soviets are fed up with subsidizing them and anyhow , want economic help from the capitalists in South Korea . |
| 8 | We want junior doctors to train , not to sleepwalk . |
| 9 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 10 | We still want each other . ’ |
| 11 | Absolutely , we all want want each other to do well do n't we ? |
| 12 | We still care for each other and , try as hard as we might , we still want each other . ’ |
| 13 | The truth is , we 're adversaries who have discovered that we want each other badly . |
| 14 | I want each unit costed before we even start to plan the town . ’ |
| 15 | I want each song to have its own distinct personality , and that window is my chance to take the listener on a little ‘ Marty Trip ’ and let them listen to what I 'm trying to say in that particular song . |
| 16 | I want each pony washed down and all the sweat scraped off . |
| 17 | The expert will in most cases want each party to send him a written submission accompanied by copies of the documents referred to or relied on in the submission . |
| 18 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 19 | The startup group contains the programs you want each time you open Windows |
| 20 | We want each police force to produce a charter telling local people , for example , how quickly the police will aim to respond to emergency calls . |
| 21 | Cut out each step more accurately along the line of the sloping path , to where you want each step to fall . |
| 22 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 23 | If , for argument 's sake , they want fifty pound , they demand sixty ! |
| 24 | He said we might sort of say to you right we want fifty quid . |
| 25 | Electronic publishing is n't like word processing , it 's not that easy to ‘ pick it up as you go along ’ — at least not if you want professional results . |
| 26 | Even tenants , with no heritable interest in the buildings they occupy , want professional advice on how best to maximise space which they might ( even in Scotland ) be paying as much as £26 for on every sq ft , every year . |
| 27 | The Americans want lower rates ; the Germans ( with Britain cheering from the sidelines ) do not . |
| 28 | Business men who are borrowers naturally want lower interest rates , but I am afraid that the Government have to take a rather broader view of what is in the interests of the economy . |
| 29 | We want complete paths because these are equal competitors , acoustically and lexically , with the final , correct interpretation . |
| 30 | They want emotional commitment , but no specific political affiliation . |