Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dundee boss Simon Stainrod said : ‘ We are negotiating with a club to sell Leighton but I do n't want to mention them at this stage . ’ |
| 32 | Surely she does not want to deprive them of these amenities ? |
| 33 | I do n't want to end it like this , ’ said Foreman , who won the world title in 1973 from Joe Frazier and lost it in 1974 to Muhammad Ali . |
| 34 | Naturally I would n't want to get him in any trouble . ’ |
| 35 | I used to be a professional cleaner — I do n't want to get her into any trouble , I … ’ |
| 36 | any comment about the s the sort of format of the table show do we want to change them at all |
| 37 | Do you want to change it to fifteen hundred thousand ? |
| 38 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 39 | ‘ And why would you want to take me to this auction ? |
| 40 | McDunn does n't want to charge me with any of the other murders but they 're going to have to make a decision before too long because my initial time under the PTA is nearly up and the Home Secretary is n't going to grant an extension ; I 'll have to appear in court soon . |
| 41 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 42 | I really want to get , I er , I I want you to , I did n't really want to make it to four , I did n't want to get it too formalized because I think that sometimes gets in the way of real information . |
| 43 | When I asked her things like that , she did n't want to tell me on other occasions , she said I know that I ca n't tell you . |