Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once you 've experienced the peace of mind that this insurance gives you , we 're confident you 'll want to continue with your valuable protection . |
| 2 | But Preston did n't want to go into his domestic problems . |
| 3 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 4 | They shouted at me ’ Get off the platform — we do n't want to know about your fucking problems ’ . |
| 5 | I want to see inside your lovely house . ’ |
| 6 | Its owner wants to concentrate on his other , unrelated major business retail interests in Cleveland . |
| 7 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 8 | Readers will work hard at a text if they need to know something about their favourite football player or team , if they want to know about their favourite singer or group , if they want information for a project that really interests them , or if they need information a make something or improve their performance in some way . |
| 9 | I now want to know about his fractured leg . |
| 10 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 11 | Because he 's got a plan of the site so he wants to know with his little squares , what 's what . |
| 12 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |
| 13 | they want to talk about anything other than crime prevention |
| 14 | Are there any places you want to praise for their special facilities ? |
| 15 | Liant says it wants to focus on its strategic base of programming languages and application enabling tools . |
| 16 | Ex-SACW Muriel Clague ( mo ) , RAF Wilmslow , 1959/60 , wants to hear from her old friends in the PBX |
| 17 | Katharine wants to hear from businesses , Phil wants to hear from anyone interested in joining the volunteer Greenfingers team . |
| 18 | Sgt John Marshall of the mounted section wants to hear from anyone interested in selling a horse which must be a minimum of 16 hands . |
| 19 | But what I want to do at my present moment is maintain my share of the business . |
| 20 | I want to sleep in my old room , so what I do is take the mattress and stick it back in my old room . |
| 21 | The numbers may partly be due to the reputation Switchboard enjoys as a good training ground for employment , mainly in the voluntary social services ( every time the organization manages to build up a core of daytime volunteers , half of them find jobs ) but the largest group of prospective volunteers are past callers , people who , having found the service useful , want to contribute to its continued existence . |
| 22 | People want to read about something different and with Mainz central to the rest of Europe this is both an important and controversial plant site . |
| 23 | When cooking with the children we want to finish with something eatable , so we are likely to add the liquid carefully ourselves , but we could let children experiment with the play-dough and if they make the first lot too soggy , more flour and salt can be added without much trouble until they make a ‘ workable ’ dough , and there can be plenty of conversation about too much , too little , a little more , a lot more and enough . |
| 24 | As for Mr we 're out of recession are we ? well if that 's an excuse for saying let's close homes well , I think that 's a a terrible shame , all he , the certainty that he wants to offer to our elderly people is the certainty that their home will close and they 'll be thrown out of it . |
| 25 | Most of it will be spent providing hospital accommodation for parents who want to stay with their sick children . |
| 26 | But , but it 's highly , I mean I do n't , it does n't follow to me that that in any way is compliant with Marxist ideology because surely you want to get to your socialist state |
| 27 | wanted this meeting to take place , I want to find out what the design philosophy is , long-term future-wise , and also , I want to get into their detailed design , so to try and establish how they determine the size of sh even simple things like pinion carved diameter , which dictates |
| 28 | ‘ I want to whisper in your shell-like ear . ’ |
| 29 | Andrews cost Saints £200,000 when he joined from Celtic three years ago but has been restricted to just five appearances as understudy to Tim Flowers and now wants to return to his native Midlands . |
| 30 | Buyers who desperately want to move into their new home will not thank a conveyancer who makes life difficult for a seller 's conveyancer who does not have a perfect title . |