Example sentences of "[adv] want [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have two sorts of customers — those who are happy with DOS and want to carry on using it , and those who eventually want to move to Windows . |
| 2 | Frank obviously want to travel to the US next year and to be in contention he — has — to play first team football — Frank was cited today as not beeing to impressed with Deano : ’ 2 goals in 12 matches in England is not at all impressive ; the chances keep coming all the time in games over here ’ . |
| 3 | And er Alan apparently wants to go to Spain and Alan said well I 'm not bloody working there , as he said , I do n't wan na earn money like that ! |
| 4 | When the temperature gradient exceeds a critical value , convection currents start — the liquid all wants to rise to the top of the layer , but some must fall to the bottom . |
| 5 | In all instances it is important for services to offer choice — some people need individual counselling or family work ; others merely want to talk to someone when they get desperate or need practical advice but are not yet ready to contemplate altering their habits . |
| 6 | ‘ We only want to talk to you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We only want to talk to you . |
| 8 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 9 | She obviously wants to graduate to serious emotional drama , but all she does is turn interesting subjects ( in this case the buried feminist history of women 's baseball ) into mush . |
| 10 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 11 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 12 | ‘ He only wanted to go to the out-patients . |
| 13 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |
| 14 | Tim , Tim , Tim he 'll probably just wants to go to the toilet soon you will tell grandma wo n't you ? |
| 15 | So what we 've got to do is try and filter out that so that the incidents go straight through to the incident rooms , rather than being queued behind everybody who just wants to speak to the caretaker , to talk about the hinges that 's just normally . |
| 16 | They no longer want to go to school . |
| 17 | An argument develops between mother and son about a rock concert which Fabian desperately wants to go to . |
| 18 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 19 | I believe that the C E C is accepting this , and I just want to say to the branch secretaries out there , do what I do , tell every member grab the cheque and throw the disclaimer in the bin . |
| 20 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 21 | ‘ I just want to talk to you about him . |
| 22 | I just want to talk to you , honey , and I ca n't . |
| 23 | I just want to go to bed and get to sleep . |
| 24 | ‘ I just want to go to sleep . |
| 25 | I just want to go to sleep and forget — forget it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Thank you , but — I just want to go to my room . ’ |
| 27 | I just want to get to Marks and Spencer . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We just want to get to the bottom of things ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We want to find out what happened , we just want to get to the bottom of things . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It is important we get these things right but basically we just want to add to the enjoyment of the displays . |