Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-production editing is a boon if you are uncertain as to what you will want to include in the final version of the video . |
| 2 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 3 | If you got it you could go in to the higher , if you did n't want to go into the higher you leave at er thirteen , you went into the supplementary . |
| 4 | I did not want to go into the dark house , where I would spend the evening quietly with old Mrs Fairfax . |
| 5 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 6 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you want to go to the giving-out-food woman and say there 's three small hungry people down here ? ’ |
| 8 | We do n't want to go in the other room and watch the nasties do we ? |
| 9 | What sort of programmes do we want to see in the nineties and beyond ? |
| 10 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 11 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 12 | And most people were desperate to get stuff in them days , you know they did n't want to wait till the following week so they tried to get it paid as best they could |
| 13 | But who 'd want to work in the small labs if the more exciting stuff went elsewhere ? " |
| 14 | Do you do you want to comment on the lowest figure ? |
| 15 | We would n't want to comment on the comparative merits of your Minitex and Barbara Smith 's Erka which we show below but it is interesting that the Minitex cost £42.10s.0d in 1950 and the Erka 45 guineas in 1960 . |
| 16 | I do n't really want to comment on the last issue really , I think we 've probably said enough on that , er the the issue of the effect on West Yorkshire . |
| 17 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
| 18 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 19 | I was told by released French hostages that he did attempt to escape , that he was beaten very badly , and that basically his spirit at that time was , was , was broken ; he did n't want to talk with the other hostages in the room and he pretty much had withdrawn . |
| 20 | However we do not want to engage in the quantitative issue for the moment , but stay with the relationship between the theoretical concept and its operational definition . |
| 21 | But what was nice about our little group was that we could we normally changed over if we did n't want to stick to the same job all the time . |
| 22 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to think about that , I do n't want to look at the actual scene , I 've got over it , have n't I ? … the way she died … and all that went before . |
| 24 | Brendan Ormsby 's transfer from Leeds United to Cardiff City was called off yesterday after the defender decided he did not want to play in the Third Division . |
| 25 | ‘ No-one in his right mind would want to revert to the horrible inequality of the Victorian era or anything like that , ’ Leo said earnestly . |
| 26 | What do you want to do for the next two weeks ? |
| 27 | Sub-text : ‘ I 'm not making myself vulnerable , I do n't want to deal with the unpredictable or get close to you . ’ |
| 28 | Behind private placements lies a simple premise : the fussier investors and issuers become about the design of their securities , the less they will want to deal in the standardised paper available on the public markets . |
| 29 | I 'd want to vote for the official candidate , but Frank 's not done too bad , ’ said Mr Dean . |
| 30 | It did not want to part with the medium-wave lengths which allowed simulcasting on both FM and medium-wave , so that the deficiencies of one could be remedied by the other . |