Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] [pers pn] want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 2 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 3 | Nobody would ever get close to a man like Felipe de Santis and she refused to acknowledge that she wanted to get close . |
| 4 | if you like so it pinches the two positive charges off the hydrogen cos in these equations the charges must must balance as well so that if you just cross the double positive out you need to you ca n't write it in but you need to remember that it wants to become a double positive given |
| 5 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 6 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
| 7 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |
| 8 | There were one or two points in what he was going to say that he wanted to sound out on George . |
| 9 | By now Kapuscinski is on his ‘ last legs ’ , and he telexes Warsaw to say that he wants to leave and that it is ‘ more or less clear ’ that ‘ the Angolans will win ’ . |
| 10 | The secretary of the local tennis club telephones to say that he wants to make a booking for their annual dinner and dance . |