Example sentences of "want to do [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want to go to the bank but what I want to do is to go to erm |
| 2 | Once they 've completed their trip all they want to do is head off back home and they simply do n't devote the time , energy and money on clearing up . |
| 3 | Evan 's angry and embarrassed , Nic 's sullen beyond belief , there 's a rammed , expectant club waiting for them to play , and all they want to do is moan at their manager ( who also works for Nirvana ) back in the States . |
| 4 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 5 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Now what I want to do is go through the blocking today , so that Micky and George can start to feel the shape of the production . |
| 7 | If your car breaks down or you need to get a taxi home late at night , the last thing you want to do is wander round looking for a phone box . |
| 8 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 9 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 10 | But if all you want to do is sit in the gardens or laze by the pool , they will allow it ! |
| 11 | The only type of legal research that most practising lawyers want to do is research into the law relating to a case that they have on hand . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm lucky , really , because I 'm with Denis and Astrid and they 're real friends — good friends and their comfort is so welcome — but I 'm in a foreign country so I 'm alone , and what I most want to do is talk about Dad to people — which is why I 'm writing this . |
| 13 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 14 | But it 's very difficult to say to people , ‘ Go back into your offices and rock your handset ’ , because it 's the last thing on your mind , especially after a boring afternoon like this , all you want to do is get in there , do as little as possible and go home ! |
| 15 | and what I want to do is to look at it er over that particular period so I can explain everything to you in full because there are benefits to you in terms of tax savings |
| 16 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 17 | What I want to do is concentrate on the modern sex theory and then er explain that and then relate it to Freud . |
| 18 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 19 | so we want to do is look at that one and we see that it 's keeping on track and er it 's doing the things that we actually want to do |
| 20 | Those boys are the type of boys , all they want to do is put in their eight hours and go home . |
| 21 | What you want to do is ring up the Sunday Times and get a reporter round and he 'll get a scandal story and they 'll do something |
| 22 | ‘ All that Wordsworthian waffle , and then when you meet the people all they want to do is hop on the bus and off to the nearest bright lights . ’ |