Example sentences of "[pers pn] want to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't mistake me for a patriot , but I want to take issue with Hardware director Richard Stanley 's remarks about the US ( FACE 24 ) . |
| 2 | I want to take the Gofer idea a little further here based on a primary principle of presentation . |
| 3 | Here , briefly , I want to take their critique seriously as a way of identifying the issue of value , of resisting the more celebratory aspects of an accommodation to the logic of commodification and consumption , and of recovering some of the ground lost or forfeited by critique . |
| 4 | I want to take issue with the idea that children are in any simple sense appropriating gender roles from the texts they consume , and argue instead that we should pay more attention to the social process which structure gendered readings . |
| 5 | But I want to take my time over tackling up and savouring the prospect of the sport I hope to enjoy . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to take this opportunity of thanking you , Mr … , and all the doctors and nurses here who have shown so much kindness to me . |
| 7 | I want to gorge on life with you , I want to take your strength from you and give you my care . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to take another look at the gibbons . |
| 9 | I want to take down some dado and picture rails . |
| 10 | I want to take the initiative a step further , which is why I am now appealing for other British companies to join us in providing this help for our troops . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to take them back there , with the others — and see it for myself . |
| 12 | I want to take part in both the opening and closing ceremonies . |
| 13 | I want to take a handful of good men and go over it with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 14 | This month I want to take some of the mystery out of ribber work , by looking at the basics of how the carriages function . |
| 15 | I want to take seriously the suggestion that the sort of inquiry that Quine has in mind could be the heir to traditional epistemology — although I shall not restrict the concerns of the latter to studying the relation of evidence to theory . |
| 16 | In closing , I want to take note of the familiar lament that science and technology have created not just a cornucopia but terrible dangers as well . |
| 17 | I want to take you out , to shop with you , buy you nice presents and have a nice time with you . |
| 18 | The major point which I want to take from this discussion of young people 's situation is that their need to be supported economically by their parents , and more generally their position in structures of reciprocal support within families , to a large extent depend upon factors outside the control of individual families : laws relating to schooling and employment , and the operation of the labour market . |
| 19 | I want to take it a step further and say , do n't behave like that , you idiots — it 's destroying people 's lives . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 21 | I want to take you shopping . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm seriously interested in acting , but I want to take my time . |
| 23 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 24 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 25 | I want to take her hand and say , Mother . |
| 26 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 27 | Here 's the list of the ones I want to take . |
| 28 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
| 29 | Will you tell them that I want to take you ? " |
| 30 | " I want to take you out to dinner , Lollie , " he said . |