Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 2 | Your doctor may want to carry out an internal examination to check the size and position of your womb , which will help indicate how far along you are , or this may be done at your hospital appointment . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll want to catch quite an early train from Liverpool Street . |
| 4 | ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers . |
| 5 | She sit down on the chair but she 'll want to stand up a little bit cause we got bins underneath and she wants to put her feet on the bins |
| 6 | It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration . |
| 7 | For example , they might want to know why a particular event took place . |
| 8 | We would n't wish to do that , but nor would we want to open up a free for all . |
| 9 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a problem we still have to solve , ’ said a spokesman : it may want to look up the latest crop of hopefuls such as Covia Technologies Inc , Locus Computing Corp , and NobleNet Inc which have recently begun to offer just such solutions . |
| 11 | I should weigh at least 8½ stone , but I do n't want to put on an extra pound . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm simply telling you how it was just in case you 've forgotten — alcohol has a rather mind-numbing effect and after all you would n't want to forget even the tiniest part of so wonderful an evening , would you ? ’ |
| 13 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 14 | We do n't want to mess up the next meeting , now do we ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |
| 16 | He did n't want to end up a mean and ignorant man like his father , or spend the years bickering with brother Shamus . |
| 17 | Why did she want to take away the one possession that was truly valuable to him ? |
| 18 | The voice said , ‘ Your people will want to tie up the loose ends . |
| 19 | And I did so want to dig up a few artichokes this evening . |
| 20 | After all , if you had been hanged , drawn and quartered at a time when such deaths were not uncommon , you would not really want to feel either the physical pain or indeed the terror which must have accompanied it ! |