Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush .
2 Most UK investors will want to invest with a sterling denominated cheque , rather than convert to dollars beforehand .
3 Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood .
4 Post-production editing is a boon if you are uncertain as to what you will want to include in the final version of the video .
5 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
6 If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’
7 I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word .
8 If you got it you could go in to the higher , if you did n't want to go into the higher you leave at er thirteen , you went into the supplementary .
9 I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax .
10 The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room .
11 I do n't want to go to a new school .
12 ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious .
13 Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End .
14 But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man .
15 ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’
16 We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ?
17 What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ?
18 " Jenny , I do n't want to sound like an old auntie , but you are not being very sensible about Matthew . "
19 Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions .
20 I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much .
21 In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame .
22 And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could
23 In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team .
24 Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis .
25 she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want
26 But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? "
27 Do you do you want to comment on the lowest figure ?
28 We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 .
29 I do n't really want to comment on the last issue really , I think we 've probably said enough on that , er the the issue of the effect on West Yorkshire .
30 Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park .
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