Example sentences of "i want [verb] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 2 | I want to get some feel of how serious it is . |
| 3 | Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television . |
| 4 | Region I want to make some comments about the UNISON er section of the report , because er I think it 's concerning me that er we 're basically not getting our act together . |
| 5 | Zapp is impatient of other academics with tentative minds , who begin articles , ‘ I want to raise some questions about soand-so . ’ |
| 6 | By looking in detail at the different responses this process elicited , I want to raise some questions about reading as a specific social activity . |
| 7 | It son a Thomas Cook Travel Book award along with its good reviews and I wanted to spend some time with the lensman responsible , to find out why this man sees so much more than nearly all his contemporaries . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to spend some time with you , and I rather doubted if you 'd be susceptible to an offer of a weekend in Paris . |
| 9 | Later , months later when I was taken into town for the first time since The Bomber , I wanted to put some flowers on her grave . |
| 10 | I wanted to base some comments about the UNISON 's er , section of the report because er , I think it 's |
| 11 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |