Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
2 | Bloody man , I do n't want to see that it 's got three on it . |
3 | ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ? |
4 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
5 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
6 | Does as it wants to do when it goes outside rather than inside . |
7 | I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do . |
8 | I want to submit that it means that we do not go to the world with a watertight message which demands ‘ take it or leave it ’ . |
9 | There are a couple of things I want to do before it reaches us . ’ |
10 | Go on , Jungle , it 's Sunday , knock it off , you want to shout as it rattles on 24 hrs per day . |
11 | So poems are elusive because you get the idea that actually working out your idea so it comes down on paper and it looks like a good poem and it says what you want to say and it does n't spoil the effect etcetera so you 've really captured your poem . |
12 | Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul , they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter . |
13 | Women who I had attacked for bringing up boy children wanted to know if it had been an immaculate conception or simply parthenogenesis , and what was I going to do with it if it were a boy ? |
14 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |