Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment computer manufacturers and disc drive makers who do not want to invest in their own design are uncertain about whose bandwagon to jump on . |
| 2 | Third party test facilities are another option for manufacturers which do not want to invest in their own facilities . |
| 3 | He said she could come with him if she did n't want to go on her own and she did n't know how to say no . |
| 4 | Or do you want to go on your own so you do n't have to get a sitter ? |
| 5 | And so she said oh I want to see that , d' ya mind if I come with you cos I do n't want to go on me own , so and then we arrived , mum arrived first and , I said you do n't mind Naomi coming do you ? |
| 6 | If you needed a non-urgent operation say a hip replacement or something , and you did n't want to go into your own savings er you know then you 've obviously given away part of your assets . |
| 7 | He wo , he wo n't want to come on his own he |
| 8 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 9 | Should you , at any stage , decide you want to work on your own , then you may give this Moscow policeman the slip . |
| 10 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 11 | We have to , we want to live in our own country , and we have a right to live in our own country . |
| 12 | There were all sorts of disadvantages to that , but she did want to look at her own presentation and movement in the classroom . |
| 13 | ‘ Why should Craig want to steal from his own company and what 's more share the proceeds with an accountant ? ’ |
| 14 | He is more likely to borrow than barter , since he does not want to part with his own . |
| 15 | Against a background of thinking that a series should : a ) find a balance between the too general and the too specific ( in their Arnold series he would say that MacLoughlin was about right , Tarone too specific ) , and b ) be for the most part single-author monographs and only rarely , if ever , be edited collections of papers ( while recognizing that CUP has produced the occasionally successful collection ) , he suggested the following topics/authors : — universal grammar/Kevin Gregg , Japan ? — input and interaction in SLA/Jackie Schachter/Teresa Pica , Pennsylvania ? ( could be two separate volumes ) — cognitive processing and SLA/ ? — ‘ instructed ’ SLA/Patsy Lightbown ? — social factors and situations in SLA/Roger Andersen , UCLA ? — age and neurolinguistic factors/Mike Long ? ( who has apparently said he would not want to publish in his own series ) |
| 16 | to give up and I thought I do n't want to fail on my own so I wo n't even attempt and then I erm I joined this project , and that was enough , I think , to keep me off . |
| 17 | ‘ She told me she wanted to work on her own . |
| 18 | ‘ It was obviously something she wanted to handle on her own , ’ Melissa said gently . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It 's nice to prove people wrong , but first and foremost I wanted to win for my own satisfaction . |
| 20 | Delaney watched her — watched the reddish hair playing around her cheek , and the lips that he suddenly wanted to cover with his own . |
| 21 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 22 | accepting the soft body that wanted to press against his own . |
| 23 | Secondly , the switch to khozraschet meant that the press had to attract paying subscribers , who wanted to read about their own regions and not be submitted to generalized and boring directives from Moscow all the time . |
| 24 | I said there was no way I wanted to live on my own . |
| 25 | But he obviously wanted to get in his own trade , and I assume place came up . |
| 26 | He wanted to stay in his own place but Jackie and Neville were nearly driven mad running up and down to Letchworth when all that they had to do , Jackie 's full time teaching and Nev is trying to build as many kitchens or build as many doors for millionaires as he possibly can . |