Example sentences of "want the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 2 | Do you want the Drunk Side or the Hangover Side ? |
| 3 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 4 | Would that be because the Communist Party did n't want the rich peasant to think they 'd be s they were being singled out ? |
| 5 | The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 . |
| 6 | the guilty person shot , we do n't want the guilty person shot , come out hit the innocent person . |
| 7 | For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east . |
| 8 | ‘ My ghost , Araminta does not want the only part of this inheritance in which I have an interest . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a twin pack here or will she want the bigger pack ? |
| 10 | ‘ When do you want the first payment ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do you want the first team or the Reserves , ’ it adds . |
| 12 | do n't want the first wee of the mor |
| 13 | I did n't want the heavier introduction stressing the relatively-new filtration . |
| 14 | Do you actually mean that you want this if that case were proven that you would want the regional shopping centre in the new settlement ? |
| 15 | I rang her the night before to say what visual aid do you want , do you want the overhead projector , or the video or what would you like |
| 16 | And the other thing is were you running from the hard drive or from that floppy ? cos I did n't want the tape-recorder travelling . |
| 17 | We do not want the additional noise , traffic and use of our access road . |
| 18 | This is true in the sense that electors want stability and do not much want the higher thought . |
| 19 | He hated a mess and would want the tidiest house . |
| 20 | Do we really want the Gaelic programme fund spent on copies of Scots-English programmes ? |
| 21 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 22 | It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river . |
| 23 | After all , you do n't want the good name of the club dragged through the tabloid press indefinitely , do you ? ’ |
| 24 | Do you want the good news or the bad news first ? ’ |
| 25 | You know Alec er , Alec comes up and informs me and I always say well Alec how are things , urgh , do you want the good news or bad news first sort of thing |
| 26 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 27 | The BT man 's here , where do we want the new socket ? … |
| 28 | do you want the other half ? |
| 29 | Jake , do you want the other half ? |
| 30 | Okay , we do n't want the entire lesson held up while you did what you were supposed to have done on Friday , right . |