Example sentences of "want [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who does n't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say . |
| 2 | Erm , women do n't just want to write about knitting , erm |
| 3 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 4 | ‘ Why do you want to know about chinchilla ? |
| 5 | for instance , you may want to know about training , holidays or canteen facilities ( see p. 27 on gathering background information ) ; |
| 6 | Perhaps the relationship is still continuing , but the boyfriend does not want to know about pregnancy . |
| 7 | … and anything you want to know about Shell |
| 8 | ‘ You want to know about Jeopardy ? |
| 9 | Sample this crucial guide to everything you want to know about sex with these questions from SHE readers who were n't afraid to ask . |
| 10 | Ms Devonald said : ‘ The competition will help the young people to say what they want to know about smoking , which will help them and other classes in the school to be better informed about smoking . ’ |
| 11 | He says it may be worth up to nine thousand pounds , and it 's also valuable to historians who want to know about Iron Age society . |
| 12 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but if you really want to know about team orders there is only man to ask Frank ( Williams ) , ’ was Hill 's reply . |
| 14 | De Sade said that if one wants to know about death one should look at sexual excitement . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to know about claptrap , he should listen to what he has just said . |
| 16 | Someone else wants to know about VAT on thoroughbred horse breeders . |
| 17 | But if the hon. Gentleman wants to know about investment , let me give him some information about investment . |
| 18 | Who wants to know about Blot ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You just want to talk about music and fucking and dope and that 's all . |
| 20 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 21 | Okay , alright , I want to move on now quarter past four now , I want to talk about assertiveness . |
| 22 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 23 | The range and nature of that choice maybe related to the concept of power and I want to talk about power at a future lecture . |
| 24 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to talk about socialism , ’ said one . |
| 26 | If I want to hear about politics , I 'll go out and vote . |
| 27 | With hundreds of items to return police say anyone who wants to inquire about property should ring 0285 641 723 . |
| 28 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 29 | There is one additional point we want to make about research which has to do with its collective and temporal character . |
| 30 | And I do n't want to talk about money . |