Example sentences of "want [to-vb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or recognising that up there the air might be too rarefied and you do n't want to go up at all . |
| 2 | Due to being hideosly shy and a little worse for the drink I did n't want to go up to some complete stranger and act like I knew him . |
| 3 | The Leeds Permanent and Abbey National want to go up by 1.25 points or more . |
| 4 | No , she wants to go up to that playgroup ! |
| 5 | The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design . |
| 6 | Right , I want to pick up on I 've started looking at your tests , the history of language ones and I 've actually marked only the section where you actually re-wrote the er , early modern English extract , and I want to pick up on that instantly , and talk about that and the ways you you , the way you can go around , no I 'm not gon na give you that . |
| 7 | Erm voting patterns , not much to say really on this erm if you want to read up on this there 's a little sect rather interesting section in Burn on this in his chapter on local government elections . |
| 8 | If you want to transfer up to 4 players , just send me an E-mail telling me which ones you wish to sell & buy . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's something I want to check up on first . |
| 10 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't want to wake up with blue lightning any more than you did . |
| 12 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 13 | Mm , like , her dad says to her why do n't you be a doctor and she , but she do n't want to , you know , she wants to be in a hospital and that , she do n't want to end up in general practice |
| 14 | like , she do n't want to end up in general practice . |
| 15 | ‘ Or that he did n't want to face up to certain consequences , ’ said Lucenzo brutally . |
| 16 | She knew there were things she should be trying to sort out in her life , but she did n't want to face up to certain ideas that lurked at the back of her mind . |
| 17 | A reader could make a number of inferences about this passage : Mary is female , more probably an adult than a child ; It is morning ; Mary does not want to get up for some reason ; Mary is in bed ; she lives in a house with a refrigerator ; the house is possibly in North America , and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ Chefs do n't want to get up at six in the morning to go to Docklands , ’ Mr Moran says . |
| 19 | ‘ At first she wanted to sit up until four or five in the morning , just talking . |
| 20 | Tell you what erm when we get into you can just drop me down to the greengrocer near the church because I 'm out of erm spring onions and if I wanted to add up to that bit of salad that we 've got |
| 21 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 22 | Erm the other one , that I wanted to bring up in this , the reason I suppose , the second one to remember , is the idea of satire . |