Example sentences of "want [to-vb] about [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , I suppose you , only want to know about my wife . ’ |
| 2 | I want to talk about your work , Alistair . |
| 3 | ‘ I imagine he 's come to Larksoken to get away from people who want to talk about his poetry . |
| 4 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 5 | I want to hear about your trip to Gallimaufry . |
| 6 | The ADT London Marathon and charity go hand in hand , so we want to hear about your charity running experiences , whether at London or other events around the country . |
| 7 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 8 | I want to ask about my sin , but Pa is already through to the Lord , praying h rd on my behalf . |