Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seated in one of Kanazawa Industrial University library 's viewing booths , they just pick the tape they want to see front the list displayed , punch in its number , then sit back and wait for the programme to start . |
| 2 | the cat wants to get dwon the steis |
| 3 | " I want to show James the rest of the house , " Jenny said . |
| 4 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 5 | So suppose Rabbit wants to tell Pooh the truth about honey , and believes the relevant truth to be the proposition , P , that there is some . |
| 6 | And why , as tellers , when we want to tell people the truth , do we do so by telling them instead what we believe ? |
| 7 | And yet , when I want to tell people the truth , what I will in fact do is try to get them to believe what I believe . |
| 8 | So that ca n't be why , when we want to tell people the truth about what 's going on , what we actually do is try to give them our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 9 | But ‘ Appendix H ’ would be mighty helpful to anyone wanting to reverse engineer the chip as well as those who want to do sophisticated software debugging or develop testing . |
| 10 | And this will make Pooh 's inference from Eeyore 's sigh to what Eeyore believes safer than his inference from Rabbit 's words to what Rabbit believes : because that inference does depend on Rabbit 's wanting to tell Pooh the truth , whereas , as we 've remarked , he may in fact be lying . |
| 11 | Any Palestinian who speaks will have to have the approval of the PLO , but this will not be said publicly because we do n't want to give Shamir the chance to withdraw , which we think he 's looking for an excuse to do . ’ |
| 12 | Any Palestinian who speaks will have to have the approval of the PLO , but this will not be said publicly because we do n't want to give Shamir the chance to withdraw , which we think he 's looking for an excuse to do . ’ |
| 13 | We need to fight drug addiction in the first instance and I do n't want to give people the paraphernalia to continue using drugs . ’ |
| 14 | She did not want to show Bridget the photograph , and was angry with herself for this uncharacteristic piece of selfishness . |
| 15 | We have made as we intended to do , if you remember we er advertised widely in accordance with our equal opportunities policy , er for that post but also I think in accordance with equal opportunity we wanted to give people the er chance to develop their range of skills internally for some of the er lower grade posts and therefore er initially the other posts er have been advertised internally and we filled the temporary er assistant administration erm post er internally . |
| 16 | He wanted to give Pearson the cue and hear him respond absolutely instantly , sharply . |
| 17 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 18 | This rat wanted to eat ropes the way Gene Kelly wanted to sing and dance . |
| 19 | His father had recently had electricity installed and wanted to show Joe the fittings and switches in each room . |