Example sentences of "you wanted [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wanted to represent a series of board positions you would need to use a 3 dimensional array . |
| 2 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |
| 3 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ? |
| 4 | You said you wanted to see a weka . |
| 5 | No , no , if you go , if you went on a philosophy you wanted to take a degree in English and philosophy you do n't know any more o than the next person about |
| 6 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 7 | If you had 700 quid in your pocket and you wanted to take a flyer , you would n't spend it on a band comprising ex-members of Clock DVA , would you ? |
| 8 | If you wanted to devise a scheme to slow down growth , you could not do better . |
| 9 | And , you wanted to create a , a sub-directory off the root directories known as root directories you would type M D space suppose you wanted to create a directory named put , put your budgets in . |
| 10 | Oh round there just wondered whether you wanted to keep a bit of tape for Vicky . |
| 11 | I 'm surprised you did n't come here , but I expect you wanted to keep a façade of respectability . |
| 12 | So if you wanted to end a pregnancy it would n't er be a problem finding out about it ? |
| 13 | ‘ How would you like to have to ask for a penny to buy a stamp if you wanted to write a letter ? ’ she would ask . |
| 14 | ‘ If you wanted to write a letter to your daughter and give it to me , I could address it to Miss — to Clare for you . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if you wanted to buy a clone PC capable of handling Quark — say a Dell 66MHz 486 with 8Mb of RAM and a 200Mb hard disk — you 're looking at just over £2,000 ! |
| 16 | Many of you wanted to have a follow-up to the successful day on working with the elderly held earlier this year , and we have therefore asked , who some of you will remember from that day , to give specific tips on how to ‘ handle ’ elderly people ; has also agreed to share some of her knowledge and experience with us later in the year . |
| 17 | Well you said you wanted to have a look at the er quilt covers ? |
| 18 | A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve . |
| 19 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 20 | If you 're in One Two Three of that suppose you wanted to make a directory . |
| 21 | If you wanted to make a person at a distance come over to you you 'd probably wave your arms . |
| 22 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 23 | If you wanted to make a banner for instance you would highlight banner on the main menu , then choose ‘ font ’ , and choose one of the nine fancy fonts provided . |
| 24 | Other ideas include horseshoes , which are adaptations of the curve ( see pp. 72–3 ) and would be ideal if you wanted to make a card or picture for a wedding or twenty-first birthday . |
| 25 | And everybody , you had to keep to suit every customer if you wanted to make a business . |
| 26 | Pam , you wanted to make a comment . |
| 27 | And you wanted to send a postcard home . |