Example sentences of "want [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Why do you want to look at the gibbons ? ’ |
| 32 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 33 | In this piece she starts very near , so near she makes us want to vomit at the sight of the caterpillar , and then she slowly moves away , gaining emotional balance as she gains physical distance . |
| 34 | Less easy as it goes along , so we 've got , start by saying loaf of , what do you want to buy at the moment ? |
| 35 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 36 | As you say , it 's my wedding day tomorrow , I do n't want to arrive at the altar with my face in a mess . ’ |
| 37 | " You might even want to teach at the end of it . |
| 38 | ‘ You have n't wanted to look at the barometer in the last four |
| 39 | In relation to erm the second erm erm motion erm we did want to add at the end that Her Majesty 's Inspector of Pollution incessantly environment |
| 40 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 41 | Do you want to pay at the counter ? |
| 42 | Now what did you want to say at the back ? |
| 43 | She wanted to weep at the pity of it all , then she opened them again to stare at him . |
| 44 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 45 | He wanted to play at the funeral but Tony 's mother would n't let him . |
| 46 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 47 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 48 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |
| 49 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 50 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 51 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 52 | He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |
| 54 | I just wanted to look at the Earth . |
| 55 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 56 | I saw it erm I ran it — I ca n't remember why I was running it , oh I think I wanted to look at an actor erm , oh no , it was at a festival and I had to sit through it and I was very disappointed in it , I found it slow and rather obvious and erm a little lacking in bite . |
| 57 | It is unnerving to want to smile at the interviewer only to discover that your face has set and feels too stiff to move . |
| 58 | I 'm saying the next appointment to be made is all by , a complaint examiner , what I should n't have thought we wanted to do at the moment more than one . |
| 59 | I wanted to start at the beginning . |
| 60 | He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it . |