Example sentences of "we want [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another letter he suggested constructing the ‘ Little End Room ’ in a spare bedroom at Headington , ‘ a place where we can always meet on the common ground of the past and ipso facto a museum of the Leeborough which we want to preserve ’ . |
| 2 | Our family has caught dolphins since 1919 and we want to preserve the tradition . |
| 3 | We want to preserve the special character of our old town and city centres . |
| 4 | ‘ While we want to preserve the best of the past , we do not want to build a monument to it . ’ |
| 5 | PPS If you already a member of The Ramblers ' Association , please forgive us , but because we want to preserve the confidentiality of each other 's membership lists , some element of duplication is inevitable . |
| 6 | We want to act carefully in order not to disturb that balance . |
| 7 | We want to mould Europe 's future in the interests of Europe 's people . |
| 8 | I know that the organisational change has come as a shock to you , as it has for me , but we want to part company after all these years , on the best and friendliest of terms . |
| 9 | If we want to assess the relationship between X and Y but are worried that both are associated with a third variable , Z , whose effect we therefore wish to control , we adopt a two-stage procedure . |
| 10 | ‘ We want to remain here together . |
| 11 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 12 | But once this absurdity is made clear , many of us today will probably find that extreme individualism , when thus exposed in its full aridity , is not a heritage that we want to claim . |
| 13 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 14 | We believe that that is of supreme importance to Europe and we want to extend the benefits wider through agreements with the European Free Trade Association . |
| 15 | In this chapter , however , we want to adumbrate the principal features of the continuum view of non-linear viscoelasticity . |
| 16 | ‘ We can drive anywhere we want to drive to . |
| 17 | ‘ We want to drive forward the traditional relationship between the sales houses and the stations . |
| 18 | People who think like me are simply protesting against the Government 's action in a perfectly legitimate way — we think they 're wrong to attack Egypt and we want to stop them before any further damage is done . |
| 19 | " We want to stop now , " said Speedwell . |
| 20 | " We want to stop at the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , " she said , with the remnants of the French accent the nuns had carefully taught her . |
| 21 | And we used to say , Well we want to stop the Land Rover . |
| 22 | We want to stop Opposition Members conniving with the Commission to withhold our money . |
| 23 | We want to stop the smuggling and claim the reward , but one of us ( teacher ? ) is worried … |
| 24 | ‘ We want to stop in future anyone swinging the lead , ’ he stressed . |
| 25 | ‘ Under my economic programme , we will build an America where even the most privileged pay their fair share , not because we want to soak the rich , but because we want to stop soaking the middle class and ask everybody to bear their fair share , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ We want to ally ourselves with companies that can complement our strengths with leading-edge technology , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Not like Jimmy Tarbuck , I mean , we want to move people . |
| 28 | ‘ We want to move forward this week , this season , and next season . |
| 29 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 30 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |