Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says , replace this one , you 've already got one called that , do you want to write this on top of it ? |
| 2 | ‘ The match is being beamed back to White Hart Lane and you always want to look good in front of the cameras . ’ |
| 3 | Wear them when you want to look smart without feeling over-dressed . |
| 4 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , Tom , ’ Sarah said , but he continued , smiling at her , ‘ No , no , I want to put this on record . |
| 6 | A staff development interview often reveals that the teacher , once settled in , wants to do more in order to extend the interest and the responsibility of teaching . |
| 7 | ‘ Bringing jobs and better training opportunities to eastern Middlesbrough is central to the Challenge programme and we want to do that by building on the skills and qualities of the people living there , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 9 | Now we are about to witness a similar case in Britain where a young girl wants to get shut of mummy and daddy and live at her boyfriend 's home . |
| 10 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 11 | If you want to get pregnant by donor insemination , all sperm donated to the major clinics is tested for HIV . |
| 12 | I want to get involved in rehabilitation and education . |
| 13 | If you really want to make light of powder you are better off with specialised hardware . |
| 14 | Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual . |
| 15 | They di they did n't want to feed those on strike , they wanted to try and get them back to work did they ? |
| 16 | I did n't want to look uncooperative in court . |
| 17 | He could have saved John , but because he did n't want to look soft in front of all the important people who 'd heard him promise Herodias ' daughter whatever she wanted , Herod killed John as requested . |
| 18 | However much she might have wanted to remain aloof from publicity the female press corps had already identified her as the ‘ Woman Head ’ of a multi-million dollar international corporation and , through the same lens , saw her therefore as challenging a man 's world . |
| 19 | In any case if I had wanted to get involved in student politics I was effectively prevented by the piles of print material that littered the coffee bar and canteen . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't want to raise this in front of your daughter , Mr Jordan , but had you any special reason to harbour a grudge against Riddle ? ’ |
| 21 | Cheese and onion little pasties they made and Laura did n't want to eat any for tea they did their nut with her |
| 22 | It was founded by two former Everex executives , Raymond Yu , 33 as president , and Philip Lau , 35 , vice-president , as a design and manufacturing house to meet the needs of systems integrators and personal computer vendors that do not want to get involved in design and manufacturing . |
| 23 | Releasing knowledge slowly not only enhances the drama , it also increases the likelihood that the children will want to get involved in research . |
| 24 | Do you want to take that to daddy ? |
| 25 | For example , some woods turn darker as they age , so you may want to take that into account when choosing something very pale . |
| 26 | You know what happens — people hear but they do n't want to become involved in case it 's all a game and they are made to feel foolish . ’ |
| 27 | He cries salt tears , he does n't want to hurt Amadé on purpose , no , he does n't . |
| 28 | Do you want to feel good at night or do you want to feel good in the morning ? |
| 29 | You see , none of us had known the poor girl , and we did not want to feel sad on Christmas Eve . |
| 30 | She wanted to look good for Dane because she was responding to the age-old instinct of women everywhere who felt the need to dress up and be beautiful for their men . |