Example sentences of "thing [pron] want [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things I want to argue is that in order to construct certain exemplary models of antiracist policy and practice it has been necessary to operate in terms of a reductive representation of racism , one which not only scales down its reality , but ignores its more complex features . |
| 2 | The last thing I want to see is local authorities skimping on the police . |
| 3 | The final thing I want to say is that , standing in this College , I urge you to support the work of the creche which is here in Rupert Stanley . |
| 4 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 5 | The last thing I want to do is break the spell . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , do n't let the fact I 'm the longest serving flat-dweller put you off ; the last thing I want to do is embarrass you , Gav , ’ I said ( just a tad tetchily ) . |
| 7 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is to offend you . |
| 8 | The last thing I want to do is talk . |
| 9 | Into the Movie Editor , and the first thing I want to do is get that background onto the screen . |
| 10 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is spoil Thomas or have him look forward to my visits simply because he knows I 'll arrive bearing gifts . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The last thing I want to do is break up your friendship . ’ |
| 12 | Once I am interested in an act 's music and I like their live performance , the first thing I want to know is where this new band sees itself going . |
| 13 | The only thing I want to hear is that they 've called it off . |
| 14 | That first holiday away is a magical occasion , and the last thing you want to do is share the magic with a hotel load of families and grannies . |
| 15 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 16 | Having loaded your game for the very first time , the last thing you want to do is read an instruction sheet this size . |
| 17 | So they do n't frighten them , you know , if you 're lying there you 're having a heart attack or you just had one the last thing you want to hear is sort of the noise of the siren , the panicking noise of a siren . |
| 18 | The last thing we want to do is broadcast this information . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The last thing we want to do is confuse anyone . |
| 20 | The last thing we want to do is to start infighting on the S A Us |
| 21 | That seems to me , to need a lot of thinking about , because if you 've got difficult children , ra the last thing we want to do is think you 've got a thousand pound fine or so . |
| 22 | Girls often become very close to their mothers , consequently the last thing they want to do is to bring any form of unhappiness to their lives . |
| 23 | ‘ If someone has gone through the trauma of a crime like this the last thing they want to see is a court handing out a light sentence , ’ she said . |
| 24 | They 've already lost the centre half the last thing they want to happen is to lose a centre forward . |
| 25 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |