Example sentences of "want [to-vb] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 — I told the Warden that I did n't want to go to no hospital but he never listened .
2 ‘ I would say to children , ‘ Do you want your father to come home or do you want to go to a funeral as an orphan ? ’
3 He said , ‘ Do you want to go to a party ? ’
4 Mrs Aggie , I do n't want to go to a school where I wo n't be able to get out and come home .
5 ‘ Do you want to go to a party tomorrow night ? ’ he asked .
6 I do n't want to go to a new school .
7 I wanted a drink , but I did n't want to go to a pub at that time of the evening , when the rush would be on , and the serious drinkers getting down to it .
8 She did n't want to go to a dentist ; even her own dentist scared her , and it could n't be much — her teeth were perfect .
9 Why do you want to go to a party today ?
10 ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious .
11 Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End .
12 ‘ Do n't you want to go to the wedding ? ’
13 This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual .
14 You have to decide , right now , do you want to go to the hospital or stay here ? ’
15 You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful .
16 Fiona returned , pulling on a fluffy white wrap over her red silk dress , saying she really did n't want to go to the dinner and being persuaded again by her husband .
17 ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’
18 She did not want to go to the beach because the beach meant the bikini , and spending all afternoon sucking in her gut and wondering why her skin went straight from fishbelly white to lobster red while all the other kids had golden tans .
19 We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make .
20 My Better Half 's always maintained , and I agree with him , if they do n't want to go to the Church then we wo n't force them .
21 This usually takes the form of a burning pain when you pass water and the feeling you want to go to the toilet more often than usual .
22 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 . ’
23 ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’
24 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 . ’
25 If you do n't want to go to the expense of buying them , check out the travel section at your local library .
26 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 .
27 If you do n't want to go to the expense and trouble of covering your walls with natural fabrics like hessian , grasscloth , or cork , there 's a lot of imitations available .
28 But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man .
29 He does n't want to go to the police .
30 Do you want to go to the Moon , too ? ’
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