Example sentences of "[vb mod] want [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Microsoft one plugs into a serial port you may want to use for a modem , while you have to hunt for a mouse to fit into the IBM PS/2 socket . |
| 2 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 3 | You may have a lump sum to invest or you may want to save on a regular basis . |
| 4 | Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director . |
| 5 | This means , then , that the sort of target group description the agency may want to develop for the advertising will be something like this ( for a brand of ice cream ) : |
| 6 | You may want to wipe around the eyes with moist cotton wool on occasions as part of the regular grooming process , and also inspect the ears . |
| 7 | Whatever criticisms one may want to make of the quality of the evidence and analysis of the debate , it is hard to deny its effectiveness in changing the climate with regard to the control of the curriculum . |
| 8 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 9 | You 'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in |
| 10 | But I 'm not really planning to be a hermit ; my brother 's coming over soon , and I know he 'll want to go to the islands , so we 'll be in touch . |
| 11 | He 'll want to go to the toilet when you start blowing the candles out little horror |
| 12 | He 'd declined the butler 's offer to take his coat : he might want to leave in a hurry . |
| 13 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 14 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 15 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 16 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 17 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 18 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 19 | But er often you might want to trigger off a particular pattern coming on the trace . |
| 20 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 21 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 22 | The other connection that you might want to make to the rising main is one for an instantaneous gas water heater or electric shower , which need mains pressure , or one of the devices which alter the quality of the water — a softener , conditioner or filter , say . |
| 23 | Joan for what it 's worth erm and this is just something you might want to think about a mobile is worth its weight in gold . |
| 24 | It would be very naive to suppose that one report taken on its own could tell you as much as you might want to know about the organization . |
| 25 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 26 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'd want to vote for the official candidate , but Frank 's not done too bad , ’ said Mr Dean . |
| 28 | Most of what you 'd want to do in a DTP package you can do with WordPerfect 5.1 , if a little awkwardly . |
| 29 | I thought you 'd want to sit round the table . |
| 30 | But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? " |