Example sentences of "want for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to get down all the colours or elements I want for the poem . |
| 2 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 3 | What they really want for Christmas PAGE wom |
| 4 | Placid and peaceful ponies are usually what people want for their children , and with good reason . |
| 5 | It 's strange you have an image in your mind of the particular person you want for the particular role . |
| 6 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |
| 7 | No matter what you want for your home , from a high technology water system to a scrolled Edwardian radiator made from original castings , it should be there . |
| 8 | He 'll make sure neither the wife nor the two boys ever want for anything . |
| 9 | Instead , it sets up shame , hatred and sometimes a complicated sexual response , which is not we want for our children . |
| 10 | Now , she thought , now Edouard will have what I know he wants so desperately , what I want for him . |
| 11 | You will notice that I never include rice and pasta in the menus on the last day of the week to avoid causing an artificial weight gain — the last thing we want for tomorrow morning . |
| 12 | When he told his wife she said , ‘ ’ Right love , you can have anything you want for your tea — anything , you 've only three days to live , what do you fancy ? ' ’ |
| 13 | Cook anything you want for supper ’ |
| 14 | Mother love , iron discipline , cooked breakfasts — nothing promises the protection we want for our six-foot babies . |
| 15 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 17 | If that 's what they want for me , Benny asked herself , why on God 's earth are they allowing me to go to university ? |
| 18 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 19 | So while I 'm not suggesting that you buy every gauge ( though that would be many a machine knitter 's idea of heaven , I guess ! ) , when working out what machine(s) you want for the yarns you want to knit most , look at the optimum yarn for each gauge . |
| 20 | Use a strip of knitting as long as you want for your finished garland , sewn as you go so that you have a covered cone , about six inches of knitting unsewn , another cone — as long as long as you want your garland to be . |
| 21 | I have a moderate level of fitness throughout and I think that 's what you really want for an expedition . |
| 22 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 23 | In order to create the Party atmosphere we want for the show , the event will be recorded in front of studio audiences at Central TV 's studios in Nottingham on 13 and 15 December . |
| 24 | Already the ‘ What I want for Christmas ’ letters are pouring into Mr Brooke , although the goodies ( we do n't know for certain what they will amount to — that would spoil the surprise — but if we are lucky they may amount to £36 million per sector ) will not be dispensed for two years at least . |
| 25 | Chief executive Nick Temple said ‘ We are now at staff levels we want for 1994 and 1995 . ’ |
| 26 | Chief executive Nick Temple said ‘ We are now at staff levels we want for 1994 and 1995 . ’ |
| 27 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 28 | I have worked long and hard to ensure that my children want for nothing . " |
| 29 | I would far rather say , if I had the seven thousand pounds , say to both my daughters there you are dears , there 's the seven thousand pounds you decide how much of that you want for your wedding what is left over you keep , and it would be interesting to find out how much they then spent on their photographers , and on their cake , and the , the wedding cars etcetera . |
| 30 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |