Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see exactly what you want to see when your in love and you ignore the bits you do n't like |
| 2 | If you want to see where probably the most significant event in English history occurred , visit the picturesque East Sussex town of Battle . |
| 3 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 4 | So I said , ‘ Maria , I am experimenting and when I say ‘ experiment ’ I mean I want to see how it presents itself . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to see how things go . ’ |
| 6 | If you want to see how you look to others , ask a friend to film you on video as you walk along . |
| 7 | I want to see how Juliet 's getting on . ’ |
| 8 | They choose the following extract and ask you to submit a target version of it , stating that they appreciate that you may not have had time to read the whole novel but that they just want to see how you might handle Le Carré 's language . |
| 9 | Sometimes they think they want to see how it looks now . |
| 10 | I see the school writing a self-appraisal and want to see how far it is doing what it said in practice . ’ |
| 11 | So if we add an example using the N tuple technique of the exclusive or problem for example er like that we want to see how the network would solve that okay in terms of a single layer network . |
| 12 | I want to see how long he 'll go on denying the fact that he was listening in , she told herself to justify her inability to leave . |
| 13 | I know , but I want to see how much there worth , so there about , see if we can get one for less than twenty pounds ca n't you . |
| 14 | how they want to see how the English word is spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 15 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
| 16 | If you want to know why the charts are no good these days , therefore , do n't blame Radio One : blame Billie Holiday , Stax , Sam Cooke , Blind Lemon Jefferson even . |
| 17 | Horror writer Stephen King on the secret of his success : ‘ People want to know why I write such gross stuff . |
| 18 | I want to know why Ewan Famber wanted to die . |
| 19 | ‘ Yet now , all of a sudden , you want to know why I think it 's so important . |
| 20 | They want to know why it has great psychological appeal . |
| 21 | IF YOU want to know why journalists and printers are obsessed with adopting new technologies , look at p139 of last week 's issue ( 20 January ) . |
| 22 | As Maxine Waters , the US congresswoman for South Central put it , in a sermon in the First American Methodist Episcopal Church last Sunday , ‘ People want to know why I 'm not saying exactly what they want me to say . |
| 23 | If you want to know why things have turned out as they are , you 've got to go back to the beginning . ’ |
| 24 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |
| 25 | I want to know why Froggy was so confident that his financial ship was about to dock . |
| 26 | Grieving parents want to know why Grantham Hospital officials failed to react sooner to the mysterious deaths and illnesses on Allitt 's ward . |
| 27 | I want to know why you 're having me watched , why you need to know every move I make , why you must have control over everything I do . " |
| 28 | Econometrics appears to help in determining budgets , and in the deployment of media expenditure — but when an econometrician tells me I should adopt a ‘ drip ’ pattern on TV rather than a ‘ burst ’ pattern ( see page 115 ) , I want to know why . |
| 29 | Now advertisers want to know why they 're still paying this premium to be first , when being first means that they 're actually fourth , fifth , sixth or seventh . |
| 30 | They want to know why I 'm drinking Diet Coke . |