Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] want [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight .
2 Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place .
3 Where you want to bend a short length of pipe , it may be better to use a length of hand-bendable flexible pipe .
4 Is that where you want to go ? ’
5 Once you know approximately where you are in your training and where you want to go , start pencilling in your goals in a running calendar .
6 It 's not too bad finding where you want to go
7 Where you want to shop .
8 The choice is yours when you select a multi centre holiday — how long , where you want to spend your time and at which hotel .
9 Simply stop the LIFESPAN Process , create the new directory ( ie. where you want to move the data to ) , move the entire contents of the old directory to the new one , reassign the logical name to the new location ( remembering also to do this in LIFESPAN_STARTUP ) and restart the LIFESPAN Process .
10 They 're very supportive , but they 're not the sorts of theatre where you want to open . ’
11 Verbatim notes are used where you want to record everything that is being said in a lecture or copy exactly what appears in print in a book or magazine article .
12 This set-up program will prompt you for the directory and hard disk where you want to install Money Smith , then sit back while the program does the rest .
13 All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — "
14 Will members make an ad hoc contribution as necessary ? eg where you want to book a speaker or hire a film
15 ‘ No , shit , you just get to a point in your life where you want to make sure that everything is going to be OK .
16 'Give us an idea where you want to begin . ’
17 Sanding floors : Where old floorboards are very uneven , or you want to leave them exposed and they are badly stained and marked , hire a floor sanding machine .
18 Er a a and then say , well we can take that on board for you if you like but it might be more efficient for you to do the possessions because the civil engineer Leeds , actually is part of your organization a a and it might be more appropriate for you to get those possessions in , for you to decide whether or not you want one big bang o o o of a week 's possession or , or you want to do it i in four hour no-trains periods for the next three years .
19 In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got .
20 If you are unsure or you want to check current staff and service agreements then seek the advice of your trades union via a local steward or regional office .
21 Or you want to believe it 's too neat .
22 You do not have to continue with stage 1 exercises if you find no further need of them or you want to concentrate fully on these harder exercises !
23 I 'll leave some tissues around so that if you do n't like it or you want to rub it off you can always use a tissue .
24 First , ask : ‘ Why should he or she want to write about me ? ’ second , and just as important , consider : ‘ Why should his or her editor want to publish an item about me ? ’
25 For those of us who are not free to live exactly where we want picking a place to live is very , very important .
26 It is absurd to ‘ yearn to fly like the birds ’ when we have feet to get us where we want to go .
27 To begin with , the Palestinian leadership must conduct an honest and tough critique of the events of the past , of our position at present , and where we want to go from here .
28 ‘ It 's going where we want to go anyway — ‘
29 Supposing we have decided , broadly , where we want to go , the problem then becomes how to get there , how to make it happen .
30 Still , it usually gets us where we want to go , near enough . ’
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