Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 2 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
| 3 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
| 4 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 5 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 6 | As your children get older you will probably want to encourage them towards a more unselfish view of the world by pointing out that their rights have to be balanced against the rights of others — and that includes their parents . |
| 7 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 8 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 9 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 10 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 11 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 12 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 13 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 14 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
| 15 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 16 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 17 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 18 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 19 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 20 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 21 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 23 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 25 | You want to sacrifice yourself in a bloody revolution that will have no hope of success , and you want to sacrifice hundreds , perhaps thousands of young lives with you ! |
| 26 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 27 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 28 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 30 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |