Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 2 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 3 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 4 | Do you want to go with daddy ? |
| 5 | Do you want to go with daddy and see the dickie birds ? |
| 6 | To build up his pot , because he might have a bad month , or he might want to go on holiday . |
| 7 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 8 | If you suffered an injury — like a slipped disc , a dislocated knee — or if you needed a hip replacement or maybe something even more serious , you 'd naturally want to go into hospital without a long delay . |
| 9 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 10 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 11 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't want to go through life as a miracle-worker . ’ |
| 13 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't want to go to school , Mammy . |
| 15 | ‘ Mum , I really do n't want to go to school today , ’ he wailed . |
| 16 | Perhaps I would n't like to stay there very long , because , as I said , I might want to go to school again . |
| 17 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 18 | Sometimes she does n't want to go to school at all . ’ |
| 19 | Alice said , ‘ I do n't want to go to school today . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |
| 21 | I must admit that I do not always want to go to work but once I am there I nearly always have a really good time . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to go to sleep . ’ |
| 23 | are you a tired baby , did you want to go to sleep ? |
| 24 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 25 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 26 | If he did n't want to go to court for a very minor offence , then you could caution him . |
| 27 | But we still got the threat : I 'd be summonsed , and no way did I want to go to court . |
| 28 | ‘ But why do n't you want to go to Gran 's ? ’ |
| 29 | ( Who 'd want to go to bed with roses anyway , what a mad idea ! ) ’ |
| 30 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |