Example sentences of "want [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I want to go and I meant it . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I want to know and I want to help make it happen . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I just want to play and it looks as though I will . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And you pick you one you want to kiss and you have to kiss them on whatever their card is showing . |
| 9 | I want to live and I want my children to get an education . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In future you decide exactly what you want to eat and you tell me what you want in it . |
| 12 | In future you decide exactly what you want to eat and you tell me what you want in it . |
| 13 | We want to stay and we think the school would be an asset to the village . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |