Example sentences of "want [to-vb] about [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 2 | You do n't want to know about your father 's past . |
| 3 | What will they want to know about my home ? |
| 4 | What will they want to know about my health ? |
| 5 | But , I suppose you , only want to know about my wife . ’ |
| 6 | I want to talk about your work , Alistair . |
| 7 | ‘ I imagine he 's come to Larksoken to get away from people who want to talk about his poetry . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ She 's attractive and if she wants to talk about my Land Rover and muddy boots , why not ? |
| 9 | Rather than dwell on the past , he wants to talk about his grandson . |
| 10 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 11 | I want to hear about your trip to Gallimaufry . |
| 12 | The ADT London Marathon and charity go hand in hand , so we want to hear about your charity running experiences , whether at London or other events around the country . |
| 13 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 14 | No-one wants to read about their chairman and the things that I 've read this week . |
| 15 | And that is what the New Testament wants to say about our relationship to Christ and his Spirit . |
| 16 | I want to ask about my sin , but Pa is already through to the Lord , praying h rd on my behalf . |
| 17 | He had known Elise only slightly and seemed to sense that Merrill did n't want to talk about her cousin , and he confined his conversation to holidays , recent travel and his work . |
| 18 | ‘ That must have been interesting , ’ said Julia and then , because it was obvious that Felicity did not want to talk about her war experiences , began to swap anodyne reminiscences with her . |
| 19 | The couple from Edinburgh to be married by Father Buckley said they did n't want to talk about their wedding plans . |
| 20 | I just did n't want to talk about our son , to tell how he has driven us almost insane with worry . |
| 21 | Now , you do n't want to talk about your wife or about yesterday … |
| 22 | ‘ And I do n't want to talk about my childhood , ’ Nigel cut in . |
| 23 | And besides , I must be all right ; did n't he want to talk about my chest ? |
| 24 | Friends always had to be left behind and , in any case , she did n't want to hear about her father 's life in France . |
| 25 | And I understood from the hospital where Mrs Ross has been a patient that before she was admitted enquiries were made and you wrote back — supposedly in your wife 's absence — saying you had no idea where your wife was and you did not want to hear about her mother or to see her . ’ |
| 26 | So when you showed us you did n't want to hear about your mother , we thought — well , we thought we 'd better go along with you . |
| 27 | But Gog does n't want to hear about our planet . |
| 28 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 29 | BBC bosses wanted to know about her love life … and if she had ever posed for sexy photos . |
| 30 | For nobody wanted to know about her bathtime invention . |