Example sentences of "want [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , that was did n't want to come and she said oh they asked for it in so I just pretended I did n't I 'd handed mine in and did n't say anything like , you know in ca like , cos I had to go and get them yesterday . |
| 2 | I said I want to go and I meant it . |
| 3 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 4 | I want to know and I want to help make it happen . ’ |
| 5 | Such a policy of extensification would avoid food mountains and ensure that our land was properly looked after by farmers who want to work and who expect a reasonable return for their efforts . |
| 6 | ‘ If the shopkeeper wants to sell and I want buy , what business is it of anyone else ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Pears wants to play and I have to bear that in mind . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
| 9 | So he has control over what he wants to hear and I have my own mixer on stage . |
| 10 | You say he is clever , clever enough to know what he wants to do and what makes him satisfied . |
| 11 | I want to see er the this rubbish dump but this is n't the time to do it and as the Conservatives said , we should wait on er to see what the Council er wants to do and I take that on board . |
| 12 | The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it . |
| 13 | If you have existing furniture and are merely re-doing a room , you will almost certainly know what you want to keep and what to replace — or re-upholster , re-cover , re-finish or re-paint . |
| 14 | And you pick you one you want to kiss and you have to kiss them on whatever their card is showing . |
| 15 | I want to live and I want my children to get an education . |
| 16 | Even before the foods which are rich in dietary fibre start to pass down your throat , they perform a multiplicity of functions which help to reduce the quantity of food you want to eat and they start to send helpful satiety signals to the brain . |
| 17 | In future you decide exactly what you want to eat and you tell me what you want in it . |
| 18 | In future you decide exactly what you want to eat and you tell me what you want in it . |
| 19 | We want to stay and we think the school would be an asset to the village . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 22 | Immortality and a Godly status are two things that Tamburlaine wants to achieve and he believes this will happen due to his ‘ protection by the Gods ’ , especially Jove : ‘ And shall the sun fall from his sphere than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome ’ . |
| 23 | I said I did n't want to talk and you attacked me . ’ |
| 24 | He said there were items which he had wanted to buy but Mrs Knight did not want to sell and he did not take them away . |
| 25 | There were those who wanted to escape and thought that everyone else ought to want to , and there were those who did n't want to escape and who did n't want anyone else to want to either . |
| 26 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 27 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 28 | He did n't want to garden and he did n't want her money . |
| 29 | And then I do n't particularly want you to start yet but if you do get time or if you 're just interested and you do n't want to stop and you want to keep going try it with sixty . |
| 30 | He did n't want to produce and I did n't want to produce , so we ended up writing songs and making the record together . ’ |