Example sentences of "want [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 2 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 3 | Say you 've got a report about a small red car , and you want to compare it with all the other small red cars that have been reported in the area . |
| 4 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 5 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 6 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 7 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 8 | So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 10 | ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’ |
| 11 | No , well you want to put it in that front lawn . |
| 12 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 13 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 14 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 15 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 16 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 17 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 18 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
| 19 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 20 | You would n't want to hear it in public first , would you ? " |
| 21 | I do n't want to do it like that . |
| 22 | You do n't want to put it on early but |
| 23 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 24 | I did n't want to believe it at first , ’ she told him shakily , ‘ but I can now . |
| 25 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 26 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't want to end it like this , ’ said Foreman , who won the world title in 1973 from Joe Frazier and lost it in 1974 to Muhammad Ali . |
| 28 | Do you want to change it to fifteen hundred thousand ? |
| 29 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 30 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |