Example sentences of "want [to-vb] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will want to know about a childminder who fails to provide a safe environment or where children appear to be neglected or ill cared for . |
| 2 | ‘ Because there 's nothing else anyone could possibly want to know about a man three days dead . |
| 3 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 4 | But there are basic things that the journalist will want to know about a story that you can work out in advance . |
| 5 | Would she want to know about the flowering of the pink camellia and its glossy leaves , about the goat running away , about the double-yolked egg ? |
| 6 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 7 | You do what you have to do : you take your shirt off and get prodded and tapped , but you keep your head down ; you do n't want to know about the stuff they do in there . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you want to know about the children 's clothes ? ’ she asked , adding that they had looked rather sweet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They did want to know about the recession . |
| 11 | What d' ya want to know about the on the phone stranger . |
| 12 | As Caroline told me : ‘ Once you have indicated that you like to buy from the comfort of your armchair , other companies assume you will want to know about the products they have to sell in the same way ’ . |
| 13 | Does anybody want to know about the cost of telephone calls ? |
| 14 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 15 | In the form of a very brief list of what we want to know about A Level , could you do it ? |
| 16 | If you want to know about the main issues of economic reform in Russia , this is the book to read . |
| 17 | But as you may discover at the end of your course you 'll have a questionnaire to say how found it , how it 's gone on and of course in the past people have filled in questionnaires saying what they want to know about the legal aspect is all about wills . |
| 18 | If you really want to know about The Charlatans , go back to the Tim Burgess ' roots with The Electric Crayons . |
| 19 | They want to know about the latest inventions . |
| 20 | ‘ And you want to know about the old man 's will ? ’ |
| 21 | If you really want to know about The Charlatans , go back to the Tim Burgess ' roots with The Electric Crayons . |
| 22 | There are also more specialised information sources you might need to use : if you want to know about the readership of a particular contemporary magazine or newspaper , for example ( perhaps as part of a study of the relation between ideology and audience ) you could use BRAD ( " British Rate and Data " ) , which lists advertising rates and audited newspaper and magazine circulations . |
| 23 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
| 24 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 25 | It 's almost like I want to write about the people who are in our songs , rather than what happens to them . ’ |
| 26 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
| 27 | He said , ‘ I want to talk about a donation you made to Sinn Fein . |
| 28 | This is because many children want to talk about the subject but can not find an adult in whom to confide or who is willing to talk about it . |
| 29 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 30 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |