Example sentences of "she want [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did she want to scald the face off a man ? |
| 2 | Would she want to see the boy ? |
| 3 | But for the other versions , the questions would be : ( 9 ) how did he paint the general ? how does she want to play the character ? |
| 4 | Now she wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge , tend to her beloved garden in Kennebunkport and read to her own grandchildren , instead of other people 's . |
| 5 | She wants to see the other guy 's thing . |
| 6 | She wants to take the pop charts by storm in the multi-talented manner of her heroine , Barbra Streisand . |
| 7 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 8 | When I asked my wife what car she wants to replace the Peugeot , she said ‘ the safest one ’ . |
| 9 | Well you see she wants to do the whole lot er cos it 's all She said , Feet are the only part of the human body she can tolerate . |
| 10 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 11 | ‘ She wants to ask the boy from the bistro to it . |
| 12 | She wants to join the WRNS . ’ |
| 13 | Well mummy wants daddy when she wants to make the , the biscuit , let's look gingerbread family , oh yes |
| 14 | She has stoutly defended the acquisition , for C$1.8 billion ( $1.6 billion ) , of 50 naval helicopters , while arguing that she wants to reduce the budget deficit . |
| 15 | ‘ She wants to marry the Duke . ’ |
| 16 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 17 | When a speaker uses because in normal conversation , it is likely that her intention is to communicate information about causal direction she wants to inform the hearer that the event mentioned after because is the cause . |
| 18 | No I do n't think she 's ready quite yet , she 's got a few things to sort out first and that 's definitely not right , she wants to raise the daggerboard not lower it , bit of confusion there about which way to turn the tiller but she 's round safely , she should be looking where she 's going now instead of sorting out all the string . |
| 19 | Jane Campbell , a member of the Independent Living Support Group in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames says she wants to raise the injustice of the £500 limit in another forum . |
| 20 | Other examples of such ambiguity are plentiful ; we offer at random : ( 3 ) ( a ) she wants to play the character limping ( b ) this process leaves the items date-stamped ( c ) Elmer made all the excuses imaginable ( d ) our lawyer sent the packages registered For instance , taking example ( c ) , under the attributive version , a speaker has a low opinion of Elmer as a man who prevaricates or procrastinates ; but with the alternative interpretation she may be giving credit to him for lending colour and credibility to a defence which has to be put forward . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel as with any customer that it is up to the owner whether she wants to show the ring , ’ she said . |
| 22 | The computer asks the child if he or she wants to work the section again or choose another scene . |
| 23 | Perhaps she wants to know the truth . |
| 24 | It would n't do for him to look round and see her ; on the other hand , she wanted to reach the shops before he did . |
| 25 | To her astonishment , Sally-Anne , who for two dreadful months had hardly been able to bring herself to be near any man , however young and apparently innocuous , wanted to stroke the corner of his mouth — more , she wanted to smooth the scar away — or , rather , since that was impossible , to run her hand down it and tell him that it did not matter , such a thing could only disturb those who were themselves already disturbed ! |
| 26 | " She wanted to use the telephone , " said Mrs Maugham . |
| 27 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 28 | I asked her if she wanted to take the wheel . |
| 29 | They could be at Buck House or , even worse , at Balmoral but she wanted to take the kids and her bald boyfriend to St Tropez . |
| 30 | For , though she wanted to take the job on now that she 'd met Silvia , she was still not prepared to acept Guido 's conditions . |