Example sentences of "want [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a tiny lizard but not er not that you would want to hit with a sweeping brush . |
| 2 | Most UK investors will want to invest with a sterling denominated cheque , rather than convert to dollars beforehand . |
| 3 | Here I would suggest that if the beginner does not want to invest in a full set , he should settle for the 3 , 5 , 7 and 9-irons , sand wedge , plus a 3 and a 5-wood . |
| 4 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 5 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 6 | I do n't want to go to a new school . |
| 7 | ‘ No disrespect to the rest — but I would n't want to go to a smaller club , however ambitious . |
| 8 | Now she did n't want to go to an expensive restaurant in the West End . |
| 9 | " Jenny , I do n't want to sound like an old auntie , but you are not being very sensible about Matthew . " |
| 10 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 11 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 12 | Our investigations of casual working in the catering industry confirmed the impressions given by the data from the LFS that most casual workers did not want to work on a regular , continuous basis . |
| 13 | she wo n't , she 's , she 's just on the , oh I do n't want to work in a boring office we 've , we 've tried to say not , you do n't have to work , it 's an in , it 's an in to what you want |
| 14 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 15 | Do you want to know about a spectacular firework display ? |
| 16 | I mean , who in their right mind would want to jump from a great height with elastic tied round their ankles ? |
| 17 | ‘ Do you want to come to a Finnish film festival at the ICA tomorrow ? ’ asks Pamela . |
| 18 | Jack 's tactic was to keep as far away from his team-mates as possible — not difficult , because he was hitting the ball pretty straight and the Sunningdale amateur , who was also fairly straight , did n't really want to talk to a pro golfer . |
| 19 | Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director . |
| 20 | He was n't happy , but could only agree when I said I was sure that he would n't want to look at a naked man . |
| 21 | It was true , she did n't want to look like a timid imitation of Faye , but at the same time the possibility of learning more about style was an attractive one . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you want to play with a new BMW ? ’ |
| 23 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 24 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 25 | Most people do not want to vote in a right-wing government so much as to get rid of a discredited and deeply unpopular Socialist government . |
| 26 | But er often you might want to trigger off a particular pattern coming on the trace . |
| 27 | Hurwitz says they need to go public to sell their products to large corporations who do n't want to mess with a small privately held firm . |
| 28 | Who would I want to fight with an old man ? " |
| 29 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 30 | He says I do n't want to live to a massive building site … |