Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I signed a three-year contract at the club and I want to see the job through . ’ |
| 3 | And the other thing is , I want to carry the computer around with me . |
| 4 | The engineer says he wants to drain the oil out of the catchment tank as there 's no point in doing anything as costly as G. 's suggestion to begin with . |
| 5 | They want to know the way back . |
| 6 | Well it was newish but er I mean one of the couriers mentioned it to us and I said well I du n no whether you want to pass the information on , whether you know , maybe you do n't . |
| 7 | And if you want to pick the motorhome up in one place and leave it in another , you face some hefty one-way surcharge of between £250 and £300 . |
| 8 | We 've been talking about the amount of coverage on television and we do have one or two more callers on the same subject , but if you want to broaden the discussion out to other aspects of what 's going on in the Gulf , do feel free . |
| 9 | Garfield wants to give the heroin back . |
| 10 | Just open the door and jump on the bed , if you want to put a bed in . |
| 11 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 12 | Gav , Our beloved administrator , wants to put a team in late , I have agreed to this as a special concession unless he starts winning : - ) ) ) . |
| 13 | I mean if he wants to put a shelf up or |
| 14 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 15 | The program will then work down the list of pieces that have stitch patterns allocated to them and ask whether you want to superimpose the piece on to the stitch pattern . |
| 16 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 17 | Now , the farm 's owners want to knock the house down and rebuild it . |
| 18 | Top of their shopping list is a robot that can climb stairs The restoration team wants to send a robot down into the basement of the reactor , which is flooded with contaminated water . |
| 19 | If you want to hang the decoration up , first make a hole through the ball with a knitting needle or metal skewer. then I like to spray the whole figure with gold or silver paint so that my added ‘ clothes ’ can be a delicate and fragile as I wish . |
| 20 | Half of that is due to programme reorientation because of the extension of the programme by two years as I understand it , can you spell out what those costs are and are we having to pay more because Germany wants to slow the programme down ? |
| 21 | Can you spell out what those costs are and are we having to pay more because Germany wants to slow the programme down ? |
| 22 | ON ONE hand the Government is concerned about the vocational needs of children while on the other it wants to turn the clock back by insisting on paper and pencil testing instead of exploring what children really need . |
| 23 | it 's not a problem so if you just want to have a look round up there and sort of come here |
| 24 | Want to have a look back at them . |
| 25 | ‘ Want to have a walk round ? ’ he invited . |
| 26 | ‘ He wants to get the lad out in case the fuel explodes , ’ the woman beside her muttered . |
| 27 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 28 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get a move on . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you ca n't get it , come down to what I want to get the fight on . |