Example sentences of "[vb mod] want [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Microsoft one plugs into a serial port you may want to use for a modem , while you have to hunt for a mouse to fit into the IBM PS/2 socket . |
| 2 | This means , then , that the sort of target group description the agency may want to develop for the advertising will be something like this ( for a brand of ice cream ) : |
| 3 | You may want to wipe around the eyes with moist cotton wool on occasions as part of the regular grooming process , and also inspect the ears . |
| 4 | Whatever criticisms one may want to make of the quality of the evidence and analysis of the debate , it is hard to deny its effectiveness in changing the climate with regard to the control of the curriculum . |
| 5 | You 'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in |
| 6 | He 'll want to go to the toilet when you start blowing the candles out little horror |
| 7 | But I 'm not really planning to be a hermit ; my brother 's coming over soon , and I know he 'll want to go to the islands , so we 'll be in touch . |
| 8 | He 'd declined the butler 's offer to take his coat : he might want to leave in a hurry . |
| 9 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 10 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 11 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 12 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 13 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 14 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 15 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 16 | Joan for what it 's worth erm and this is just something you might want to think about a mobile is worth its weight in gold . |
| 17 | It would be very naive to suppose that one report taken on its own could tell you as much as you might want to know about the organization . |
| 18 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 19 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 20 | Most of what you 'd want to do in a DTP package you can do with WordPerfect 5.1 , if a little awkwardly . |
| 21 | I thought you 'd want to sit round the table . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
| 23 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 24 | although he would want to return to the question of public spending savings , he said that the report was a very thorough examination and also exceptionally well written . |
| 25 | Who would want to cook with an oven such as this ? |
| 26 | And who but a megalomaniac would want to live on the set for a Hammer horror movie ? ’ |
| 27 | What , do you have any idea what sort of social work you would want to do in the end , or not really ? |
| 28 | This is a much more difficult job than connecting into uPVC stack — sand is possibly a job that you would want to leave to a plumber . |
| 29 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 30 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |