Example sentences of "want [verb] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to see it 's bloody silly ! |
| 2 | If you phone me up and say , Yes I want to come it 's all done . |
| 3 | I really want to know she is loved and cared for . |
| 4 | If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions . |
| 5 | People want to know it 's cash value , they want to know what it does erm what it 's worth in very practical terms . |
| 6 | The times when I have problems about how I want to look it 's not to do with me , it 's other people . |
| 7 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 8 | ‘ Obviously he does n't train as much as the other players because we want to ensure he is in good condition for matches . |
| 9 | ‘ Or you want to believe it 's too neat . |
| 10 | Some woman called the Bogey and they called her , they said to her , will this Mrs come up we want , we want to sing it 's her |
| 11 | But I 'm getting ahead of myself , when all I really want to teach you is the full history of such a product . |
| 12 | You see , the reason I want to marry you is a very simple one . |
| 13 | Erm I only want to say it is very important that we must do nothing to sort of prejudice the outcome of the consideration of the planning application environment cases sub committee , erm at a later erm stage . |
| 14 | What I want to ask you is , in your last film , Young Toscanini , you played an opera singer — which opera singer did you base your character on ? |
| 15 | Calm down guys I want to ask you is is he better with it or without it ? |
| 16 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 17 | Low , the last question I want to ask you is really a rather naive one . |
| 18 | Erm , so er , an , and the other thing I really want to tell you is of course , this tape recording is a blind . |