Example sentences of "want [to-vb] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in an 1894 speech , Millicent Fawcett pressed for the vote on the grounds that she ‘ wished to strengthen true womanliness in women , and because I want to see the womanly and domestic side of things weigh more and count for more in all public concerns ’ . |
| 2 | If you want to use the original if you 'd |
| 3 | " I really have n't any particular interest in the sale , except that I want to do the best that I can for this retired artist , Sam Mills , " he said . |
| 4 | If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want . |
| 5 | In effect , they are making two claims , one of which I want to call the minor and the major claim , which are not logically necessarily following one from the other . |
| 6 | If if I say well let's try and add up a sixth and a twelfth and most people want to add the six and the twelve together and things like that but you ca n't do it that way you 'll have to change them both into something that 's the same . |
| 7 | If these so-called rugby experts want to relive the monotonous and tedious forward battles that culminated in England 's Grand Slam then they can keep their memories . |
| 8 | It is extraordinary that the Labour party , which we all know want to tax the rich , now wants to tax the poor as well . |
| 9 | Let's hope for its sake that the customers really do want to build the huge and ambitious downsized applications System 10 is for . |
| 10 | Let's hope for its sake that the customers really do want to build the huge and ambitious downsized applications for which System 10 has been designed . |
| 11 | The county council had wanted to demolish the towering and elegant stone-built landmark and replace it with a more functional concrete and steel structure . |
| 12 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 13 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |
| 14 | We do n't want to upset the working and . |
| 15 | Giles wanted to see the judicial and revenue branches of government drawn more closely together on the Indian model . |
| 16 | And perhaps I should have been , because I wanted to do the other as well . ’ |
| 17 | Sheila Ferguson 's US publishers wanted to excise the racial and political history that informs Soul Food ( Weidenfeld paperbacks , £6.95 ) . |
| 18 | He wanted to feel the black and white keys under his fingers again . |