Example sentences of "[vb mod] want [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And why it was that such a man should want to fight against the Seven . |
| 5 | You 'll want to wait till the end of the month before I put mine in |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'll want to go to the toilet when you start blowing the candles out little horror |
| 8 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is n't the kind of thing we 'd want to see in the minutes , is it ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'd want to vote for the official candidate , but Frank 's not done too bad , ’ said Mr Dean . |
| 15 | I thought you 'd want to sit round the table . |
| 16 | But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? " |
| 17 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
| 18 | although he would want to return to the question of public spending savings , he said that the report was a very thorough examination and also exceptionally well written . |
| 19 | And who but a megalomaniac would want to live on the set for a Hammer horror movie ? ’ |
| 20 | What , do you have any idea what sort of social work you would want to do in the end , or not really ? |
| 21 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 22 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 23 | The council was doubtful whether the public would want to pay for the changes . |
| 24 | She hoped people would want to try for the Number Power certificate as they learn and has even joined herself : ‘ I have always been rotten at maths but this is the ideal way to do it , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about two-thirds ( 62 per cent ) of lone mothers on income support said that they did not want to work immediately although they would want to work in the future . |
| 26 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 27 | Bringing his voice under control he suggested it was unlikely that a man of O'Hara 's established reputation would want to appear in the provinces . |
| 28 | Indeed , some families will want to talk about the present , believing that what has occurred in the past is of little or no consequence . |
| 29 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |
| 30 | KENNETH CLARK SAID at the time of World War Two , ‘ The average artist will want to go to the Front not simply out of curiosity or bravado , but because he may there discover some of that emotional stimulus on a grand scale which is inevitably lacking from his everyday life . ’ |