Example sentences of "[adv] want [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 2 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 3 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 4 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 5 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 6 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 7 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 8 | Those who fail the Cl test flee in terror out onto the battlements — they just want to get out of the tower . |
| 9 | ‘ I just want to get out of the rain . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I just want to get out of the area and reach a phone . ’ |
| 11 | She just wanted to sink back into the dream and give in to the lovely floating sensation . |
| 12 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 13 | She just wanted to dash out of the house and let the rain cool some of the thoughts flying around in her mind . |
| 14 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 15 | But I 'd had a bellyful of your family and I just wanted to stay out of the whole rotten business . |
| 16 | When that final whistle went I just wanted to throw up in the sponge bag . |
| 17 | This is not Norma 's fault , she 's probably quite a nice dear who never wanted the fame , never wanted a prime minister for a husband , just wanted to get on with the washing up back in Huntingdon . |
| 18 | ‘ What would happen if anyone just wanted to get out of the partnership — I mean , without a death being involved ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's easy now to say he was hasty , yet at the time he just wanted to get out of the place because he was so ill . |
| 20 | Terry did n't want any truck with service medicos , he just wanted to get back to the States and see Madeleine , Sulome and Gabrielle . |
| 21 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 22 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 23 | I mean effectively , I always wanted to go back to the middle ages er , with , with the history books of English society . |
| 24 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 25 | I suppose some people might have but I think I did n't really want to face up to the fact that he might have been that man on the beach . ’ |
| 26 | It was so wonderful that she did n't really want to get out of the car . |
| 27 | However , many carers may not have a great deal of energy left over for campaigning , and may simply want to go along to the group for support , advice and a break from usual responsibilities . |
| 28 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 29 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 30 | She felt as if she never wanted to go back into the house , as if it had tied her with a million cobweb fine lines , as the Lilliputians had trapped Gulliver , and that she could not get free . |