Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [adv] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your feet get hot in your bloody shoes and you want to go outside and walk through mud . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I just want to go back and talk about a few things we just touched on earlier . |
| 3 | If you have spent a twelve hour day coping with the daily realities of road accidents , the elderly incontinent , housing the homeless — usually with inadequate resources — I promise you that you rarely want to go home and read about it . |
| 4 | His intention is the cuddly fish that feeds on acorns and sleeps through the winter when nobody wants to go outside and look in their fishpond anyway . ’ |
| 5 | At twenty-nine , inspired by Humboldt , he wants to go off and live in South America , among the savanahs , and never be heard of again . |
| 6 | " I know in your secret heart you want to come here and live with me but we 're not going to be two old maids mouldering away together . |
| 7 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 8 | I want to stay up and talk to Liz … ’ |
| 9 | I want to stay here and live with Miss Honey and she says that I can but only if you give me permission ! |
| 10 | He wants to get home and play with it . |
| 11 | I just want to get out and fight for what is rightfully mine . ’ |
| 12 | But there 's a plea to the public wanting to come along and cheer on their promotion-winning heroes to stick to the areas for their use . |
| 13 | Well perhaps in the future that it might be one thing that you might want to lift up and develop as time goes on well done mate . |
| 14 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 15 | Do you want to stay here and look at the books ? |
| 16 | It was n't as if I even wanted to sit down and write in the first place . |
| 17 | She wanted to go on and talk to the audience before the show began : ‘ Like me , please like me , ’ she said to them , which is an approach not appreciated by British audiences . |
| 18 | I 'd like to get , the reason I wanted to come here and go in my car |
| 19 | And just as those who are young feel the need to talk about and prepare for earlier important events , such as their wedding , or their children 's christenings , it is quite normal and not at all macabre for some old people to want to look ahead and plan for the ritual and display of family love and unity that will take place on the day of their departure from this world . |
| 20 | George said : ‘ I also had a Triumph Stag I wanted to do up and put on the road next year . |
| 21 | He desperately wanted to get up and speak to her . |
| 22 | The South African was fed up , wanted to get home and agreed with Zack . |
| 23 | She had n't been out because she wanted to stay in and look after Bradley . |
| 24 | They seemed like a great group of standing stones upon a misty moor and he wanted to step forward and go to where they were . |