Example sentences of "want for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you could try to remember to bring down all the things you 'll want for the day , in the morning … ’ |
| 2 | I really could n't I would never get the price I 'd want for the alphabet . |
| 3 | But I I really could n't I would never get the price I would want for the alphabet . |
| 4 | ‘ Hauptsturmführer Vaughan will remain and test-fly the plane now and as much as he wants for the rest of the day . |
| 5 | He 's set up a meeting for tomorrow with his financial boys , and I get the impression he 's very keen , but it 's all down to what he wants for the equity investment and how much I 'm prepared to give him . ’ |
| 6 | The tricky part will be to squeeze from service industries alone the entire 4% of annual productivity increases that the government wants for the economy as a whole . |
| 7 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 8 | That 's the sort of colour you want for the top of your is n't it ? |
| 9 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |
| 10 | I have to get down all the colours or elements I want for the poem . |
| 11 | So wh are you saying that all this stuff you want for the admin course , you 're gon na raise money separately or do you want |
| 12 | Is this wha what you want for the future ? |
| 13 | Things they want for the Christmas party ? |
| 14 | If you only want for the effect of being a clown . |
| 15 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 16 | Erm , if we are asking Mr to look at the long-term viability and the ways of preserving that , those options may be other than option one which was what you moved , and I think it 's rather premature to actually go down a road that says we preserve it in it 's present form with some disposals , when , we are asking for a report for it 's future viability , which may mean complete disposal , or may not , and I think , that , that 's why I 've seconded Mr 's amendment , because it 's right we should wait for that that report to come to property , know the full facts , and then we can make a decision as to which option we want for the County Farms estate . |
| 17 | In order to create the Party atmosphere we want for the show , the event will be recorded in front of studio audiences at Central TV 's studios in Nottingham on 13 and 15 December . |
| 18 | ‘ But before Derry can be made a major European city it 's important that the people of that place are proud of themselves and their city and know what they want for the city . ’ |
| 19 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 20 | I was just looking at some of the prices they want for the property . |
| 21 | ‘ It appears that you are willing to sacrifice what you want for the good of others , ’ he said softly . |
| 22 | In that case , the plaintiff had invested money in a company after relying on accounts that had been prepared negligently by the defendant accountants who had known that the accounts were wanted for the purpose of inducing the plaintiff to invest money in the company . |
| 23 | His slightly pedantic manner is n't perhaps quite what 's wanted for the part , but he has studied it closely , sings it with unfailing musicality , as regards intonation , note values , dynamics and phrasing , and in Ac ; t 3 catches most of Tristan 's desperation and longing . |
| 24 | Dawn had just broken and Sir John , unable to sleep , had risen early to confer with Alderman Venables about the continued disappearance of Roger Droxford , still wanted for the murder of his master whose decapitated corpse Cranston had found . |
| 25 | The Foreign Office said it was still determined Libya should hand over two of its countrymen wanted for the attack . |
| 26 | Elizabeth had won the essay competition and was just about to stand up when Jessica got up and she walked up to Mr and she asked and he asked her what magazine she wanted for the year and she said Rock Seventeen Jessica knew what magazine Elizabeth wanted and she just said Rock Seventeen . |
| 27 | This , in similar vein , was what David Whitaker wanted for the Doctor . |
| 28 | Police shot dead three men in a raid on a Cairo flat on Dec. 19 , 1988 , one of whom was an Islamic militant wanted for the killing of a police officer in the Cairo district of Ain Shams earlier that month . |
| 29 | Sliver producer Robert Evans said : ‘ Sharon was the only one I wanted for the role . |
| 30 | PC Timms strolled into the inn , confronted the man at the bar and accused him of being Robert James , wanted for the murder of a police officer at Harwell . |