Example sentences of "you wanted [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wanted to invent a perfectly stereotyped queer , this is the story you 'd tell — down to the name ‘ Mary ’ and the fact that his sexual partners were young , and prostitutes . |
| 2 | If you wanted to represent a series of board positions you would need to use a 3 dimensional array . |
| 3 | Oh yes , do the blue sky then I do purple , what I thought you wanted to do a blue sky ? |
| 4 | Similarly , if you wanted to pronounce the word you would have to transmit the 538-code to the speech output system , so that the appropriate phonological representation can be generated . |
| 5 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |
| 6 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ? |
| 7 | It 's the kind of mistake you 'll only make once or twice , I suppose , but it would be simpler if , when you enter the CUSTOMER invoice section , the program asked whether you wanted to print the invoice , and gave you the option of which one to use , or asked whether the invoice had already been raised . |
| 8 | You wanted to see a ruined castle , did n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | You said you wanted to see a weka . |
| 10 | I thought you said you wanted to see the back of my head ? |
| 11 | ‘ You wanted to see the Man , did n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | If you had 700 quid in your pocket and you wanted to take a flyer , you would n't spend it on a band comprising ex-members of Clock DVA , would you ? |
| 13 | and then just generally play with it say , Oh I wonder what would happen if you put two thirds together , how many twelfths would that be or what about if you had a third and you wanted to take a quarter away , if you cut a quarter off it . |
| 14 | No , no , if you go , if you went on a philosophy you wanted to take a degree in English and philosophy you do n't know any more o than the next person about |
| 15 | If you wanted to devise a scheme to slow down growth , you could not do better . |
| 16 | The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well . |
| 17 | So when you got to see the Designer 's scale model of the studio sets you knew that if you wanted to put an actor in one spot , in mid-shot , camera one would have to be precisely in such-and-such position with one lens , camera two would have to be precisely in another position with another lens , and so on . |
| 18 | If you wanted to describe the position of the pieces on a chess board you could use a 2 dimensional array . |
| 19 | And , you wanted to create a , a sub-directory off the root directories known as root directories you would type M D space suppose you wanted to create a directory named put , put your budgets in . |
| 20 | And , you wanted to create a , a sub-directory off the root directories known as root directories you would type M D space suppose you wanted to create a directory named put , put your budgets in . |
| 21 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 22 | For example , if you wanted to format a floppy disk in drive A to 720Kb type in : |
| 23 | Getting the message , by controlling the call , through asking open questions , and also remembering to ask closed questions if you wanted to control the call , shutting up a chatterbox , as with Mrs Waffle , when she phoned up about her Gloria . |
| 24 | For example , if you wanted to use the line that , ‘ Doctors bury their mistakes ’ without appearing to criticize the bridegroom who is a medical student or doctor , you could say that ‘ other doctors , bury their mistakes . |
| 25 | You loved someone ; you wanted to spend the rest of your life with them . |
| 26 | If you wanted to know the answer , and if you also wanted to listen to Messrs Major , Kinnock and Ashdown , you had to keep zapping from channel to channel . |
| 27 | You wanted to know the truth , Robert , and here it is , some of it . |
| 28 | ‘ If you were Free People and you wanted to strike a shocking , symbolic blow at the family — something that everyone in the country would feel — which family would you bomb ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No one would blame you if you wanted to keep a low profile . ’ |
| 30 | I 'm surprised you did n't come here , but I expect you wanted to keep a façade of respectability . |