Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] want [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I 've always wanted to do a kiddies ’ series like Sesame Street , ’ he was saying ‘ but of course I 'd want to eat a couple of the little bastards afterwards , if that would be OK with you . ’ |
| 2 | So at the start of the second week I will want to put a master sheet up with all the headings on |
| 3 | You may want to stipulate a time limit for replies : to help with your catering arrangements : Please reply on or before May 8 , 1922 . |
| 4 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 5 | You may be using some particular part in the spreadsheet that you consider to be unusual , er you may want to include a page reference , so that er , you can understand it again |
| 6 | If you have Economy 7 and can use the lower-price electricity during the night , you may want to choose a machine fitted with a delay button . |
| 7 | On the other hand , you may want to write a book in which the element of comedy is much less strong . |
| 8 | If you are ill you may want to write a letter than can be read and re-read in the future . |
| 9 | It is also generally a good idea to keep your notes short ; while you may want to keep a record of everything that might prove useful , your notes will seem unhelpful if you feel swamped with redundant information when you come to refer to them later . |
| 10 | But you may want to add a second ( perhaps en suite ) bathroom or to re-arrange the existing layout to squeeze in extra equipment , such as a bidet or separate shower . |
| 11 | ‘ Strange you should want to take a look at this place . |
| 12 | For example , you might want to take a country record and copy the inflections of some singer 's voice ; doing that will give you something completely new . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you might want to take a look at young Timothy here . |
| 14 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 15 | Well , you might want to knit a dolman sweater , a bolero or a cross-over cardigan . |
| 16 | You 'll want to know a source of Gordon 's gin , angostura bitters , streaky bacon . |
| 17 | You 'll want to have a piece of Ontario wrapped to take home with you . |
| 18 | She is my maid and her fingers are much smaller than yours and then she 'll want to put a salve on it and … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ If you spent your time doing 25 laps with a thousand gear changes , sweating in a flame-proof suit and helmet then you 'd want to look a bit glamorous at the end of the day , ’ she said , The splendid lady in charge of raffle tickets for RUKBA seemed very knowledgeable about Washington . |
| 21 | Now you 're one of a pair , it does n't mean that you have to do everything together , but the chances are that you will want to spend a lot of your spare time with each other . |
| 22 | Obviously , you will want to make a profit , but how much ? |
| 23 | Sooner or later you will want to knit a pattern not in the book so I thought today we might explore some of the possibilities of the cards and reader . |
| 24 | In most circumstances you will want to pay a language helper for his/her work , on a scale that is comparable with the local situation . |
| 25 | If you know you will want to keep a document while you are typing it , save it when you pause for thought , and always when you leave your workstation . |
| 26 | We may want to make a dash straight back to Olbia so that we can catch the first ferry across in the morning . ’ |
| 27 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 28 | In short , we shall want to apply a notion of rationality to foreign policy decisions which is neither wholly calculative ( zweckrational ) nor mindless of consequences ( wertrational ) nor a mere mixture of the two . |
| 29 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 30 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |