Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't want to burden you with this but you 'd soon have wondered why Mackie did n't come . ’ |
| 2 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 3 | She could not imagine who might want to see her at this time on a Saturday morning . |
| 4 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 5 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 6 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 7 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 8 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 9 | Now do you want to provide them with any parking facilities off parking ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do not want to know you at all , Monsieur Lemarchand , ’ she stated firmly . |
| 11 | They do n't want to know you at any other time … but most of them are n't like that here . |
| 12 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 13 | Did you want to discuss them in private ? |
| 14 | You would n't want to hear it in public first , would you ? " |
| 15 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 16 | Now I do n't want to embarrass them in any way . |
| 17 | I do n't want to do it like that . |
| 18 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 19 | ‘ I brought them over yesterday and George let me have a couple of boxes for the night but I do n't want to leave them over another night if I can help it . |
| 20 | You do n't want to put it on early but |
| 21 | ‘ No , I do n't want to put you to any bother . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been so kind to me that I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't want to put you to any more trouble . |
| 25 | I would n't want to put you to any trouble . ’ |
| 26 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 27 | I did n't want to believe it at first , ’ she told him shakily , ‘ but I can now . |
| 28 | Obviously we do n't want to expose them to more than they can take . |
| 29 | Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want . |
| 30 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |