Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostility of the Newcastle poetry scene ca n't hurt him : he does n't want to perform for poets , anyway . |
| 2 | Whatever comments were made in the heat of the negotiations at Maastricht , there can be no doubt that those who wish to invest in Europe will want to invest in countries that will be part of the economic and monetary union and not in countries outside it . |
| 3 | She did n't want to quarrel with Maria , today of all days , when they had so little time left together . |
| 4 | I did n't want to quarrel in front of Flora — it seemed humiliating over something so small — so I said , ‘ Well , it 's just that they seemed so happy and fond of each other . |
| 5 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 6 | Wendy and I had decided that we did not want to remain in Wolverton , if we could go to one of the more interesting towns nearby . |
| 7 | These people do not want to remain in Bosnia-Hercegovina , they wish to join Croatia , a dream they share with the Croat president Franjo Tudjman . |
| 8 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 9 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 10 | Do you want to go with daddy ? |
| 11 | Do you want to go with daddy and see the dickie birds ? |
| 12 | Currently we are reviewing the number of staff needed for Stage 2 , but this will almost certainly be a significantly smaller number , and I anticipate quite a number of the existing A Station staff will want to go on SVS : quite a number have already indicated a wish to do so . |
| 13 | To build up his pot , because he might have a bad month , or he might want to go on holiday . |
| 14 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 15 | Er i this is why it 's important that you mix with people , that you get out and about , because if you find that everybody else is , is getting up the hill faster than you and everybody else is crossing the roads quicker than you and all the rest of it , it should tell you something , now I mean I do n't even want to go into competition but I think it is good occasionally to see if you can walk as fast as that eighteen year old in front of you . |
| 16 | If you suffered an injury — like a slipped disc , a dislocated knee — or if you needed a hip replacement or maybe something even more serious , you 'd naturally want to go into hospital without a long delay . |
| 17 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 18 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 19 | I do not want to go into detail about how I get on with Michael . |
| 20 | ‘ I would n't want to go through life as a miracle-worker . ’ |
| 21 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to go to school , Mammy . |
| 23 | ‘ Mum , I really do n't want to go to school today , ’ he wailed . |
| 24 | Perhaps I would n't like to stay there very long , because , as I said , I might want to go to school again . |
| 25 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 26 | Sometimes she does n't want to go to school at all . ’ |
| 27 | Alice said , ‘ I do n't want to go to school today . |
| 28 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |
| 29 | She did n't want to go to New Zealand . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to go to England ! ’ |