Example sentences of "want [verb] about [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why would I want to talk about them to anyone else ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 3 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 4 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 5 | I do n't want to talk about it to you . " |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 7 | Each child 's home circumstance is different , and not all children will want to talk about it in school . |
| 8 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |