I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as long as...want
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You can stay for as long as you want .
be wanted on the phone
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Larry, tell Rosemary that she’s wanted on the phone.
desperately want/need
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The crops desperately need rain.
don’t want to pry
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I don’t want to pry , but I need to ask you one or two questions.
need/want company
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Children need the company of other kids their age.
satisfy sb's wants (= provide the things that someone wants )
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We work hard to satisfy customers' wants.
the last thing sb needs/wants
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The last thing she needed was for me to start crying too.
want a divorce
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She told him she wanted a divorce.
want ad
want nothing to do with (= do not want to be involved )
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I want nothing to do with the whole thing.
want revenge
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You broke her heart and now she wants revenge.
want sth badly
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Caroline wanted the job badly.
want to know
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I thought you’d want to know immediately.
want to laugh (= to feel like laughing, even though it might be more polite not to )
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He was so earnest that I wanted to laugh.
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/get/want shot of sb/sth
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Helen couldn't wait to get shot of me.
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If you want to get shot of it through DataEase, it depends on what version you're using.
have/hold/want no truck with sb/sth
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But it does lead inevitably to ignorance, for you can not understand what you deliberately chose to have no truck with.
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Its radicals, who dominate the leadership, want no truck with Mr Gorbachev.
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Then the people who get penalised are the majority who want no truck with him.
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We in the Conservative Party have no truck with that style of gutter journalism which we were forced to endure last Sunday.
how you like/want
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First decide how you want to set up your directories.
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Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
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It's how we like to see ourselves.
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Live your life how you want.
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Oh, how I wanted to win!
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Oh, how she wanted him to.
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Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
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You try reading this with only one eye and see how you like it.
need/want sth like a hole in the head
the last thing sb wants/expects/needs etc
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I like going to bed with her when going to bed with me is the last thing she wants.
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To be slipshod is to be hounded, which is the last thing he wants.
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With household costs inevitably rising, the last thing he wants is a larger mortgage than he can reasonably afford.
want a word
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And you want word to spread about your success-not your anxiety.
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But first he wanted a word with Darren before the boy was driven home.
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He wanted words back; nothing else would do.
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I want a word with them fellows.
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I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar.
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Russell happened to be in the office and sounded watchful when Dexter explained why Blanche wanted a word with him.
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Tell your father to come with you, I want a word with him too.
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Weenie and Co. might be at school then and he wanted a word with Sarah on her own.
want no part of sth
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But manatee revelers wanted no part of the little pine trees.
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He wanted no part of foreign soils.
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My Sam - he wanted no part of it.
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Otherwise, it wants no part of North Forest's manifold problems.
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They wanted no part of team systems.
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They wanted no part of the Clinton plan.
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You must accept that she wants no part of you.
want rid of sb/sth
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Fred and Louise want it that way too, they want rid of me.
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Is Wilko trying to prove a point or does he just want rid of Rocky???
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They wanted rid of me all the time.
whatever you say/think/want
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And she always did whatever she wanted, which was mostly enjoy herself and ignore her homework.
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Dare they call her bluff and just let her get on with whatever she thought she could do to inconvenience them?
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Eurydice said her daughter could do whatever she wanted to do.
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I eat whatever I want and run three miles a day.
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I know that I had no intention of stopping the procedure, whatever anyone said or did to influence me.
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In my stupidity-or whatever you want to call it-I tried to move around to his left.
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The hon. Gentleman can make whatever he wants of it, but it will still not save his seat.
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You think you should get whatever you want right away.
without wanting/wishing to do sth
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Without wanting to, Rose was drawn to watch.
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Without wishing to be demeaning, computer literacy and competence is not particularly high on the list of archival training.
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Without wishing to scare you unduly, you should be aware that sharks do lurk out there.
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Without wishing to tempt providence in any way, we appear to have got away lighting in so far as Winter is concerned.
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He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others.
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Lying in bed, she thought of him without wanting to hurt him at all.
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She sank deep down again, unable to stay alert, and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky.
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The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I want you," she whispered, "I want you now."
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Do you want milk in your coffee?
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Do you just want clothes for your birthday?
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He wants you in his office right away.
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He was obsessed with her and wanted her desperately.
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I want some coffee.
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I want to see life, to travel the world, and write about what I see.
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I never want to work in a factory, having seen the effect it had on my father.
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My parents moved out of London because they wanted a bigger house.
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She wants Tom to come to her party.
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Stacey wants to be a doctor.
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What do you want to be when you grow up, Clare?
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What do you want to do at the weekend?
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What we want is a car that's cheap and reliable.
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You can go back to bed for a while if you want .
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You don't really want to be a hairdresser, do you?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Lockheed Martin now wants clearance to export the new F-22 stealth fighter.
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But you might also want to be bumped.
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Does he want to commit his whole life to her happiness?
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He looked so cautious it made me want to cry.
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I want to stay here, with him, for ever.
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Major wanted chartered citizens to call Whitehall and get cones on clogged motorways removed.
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Was it affection that made him want to agree, or guilt?
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Wiggins wanted his charges to prepare for the world of work.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(do you) want to bet?/wanna bet?
be found wanting
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The policy has been severely tested over the last 16 months and has been found wanting.
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Both were confidently given and both were found wanting.
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Faced with these twin assaults on his ego it was hardly surprising that many players were found wanting.
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Improvements can be made in the light of performance and composers may discard or destroy compositions which are found wanting.
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It's a long time since Donegal were found wanting in so many key areas.
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The toilets were found wanting as well.
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Until Nikos was found wanting Owen would continue to trust him.
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When the match was found wanting, he was able to proceed to non-spherical planets, and so on.
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With the result that pure deduction is found wanting.
be/get/want shot of sb/sth
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Helen couldn't wait to get shot of me.
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If you want to get shot of it through DataEase, it depends on what version you're using.
have/hold/want no truck with sb/sth
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But it does lead inevitably to ignorance, for you can not understand what you deliberately chose to have no truck with.
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Its radicals, who dominate the leadership, want no truck with Mr Gorbachev.
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Then the people who get penalised are the majority who want no truck with him.
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We in the Conservative Party have no truck with that style of gutter journalism which we were forced to endure last Sunday.
how you like/want
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First decide how you want to set up your directories.
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Is this how we want to spend our dotage?
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It's how we like to see ourselves.
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Live your life how you want.
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Oh, how I wanted to win!
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Oh, how she wanted him to.
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Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
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You try reading this with only one eye and see how you like it.
make you (want to) puke
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It made me want to puke .
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It makes me want to puke , except I did enough of that last Saturday night!
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It makes you want to puke .
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Orange juice is acidic, that made me puke .
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The stuff was either rubbish, or twee, or so boring it made you want to puke .
need/want sth like a hole in the head
not want to know
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If you're going to start an argument with Alex I don't want to know about it.
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You'd think the government would be concerned about people sleeping rough, but they just don't want to know .
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And accustomed now to not knowing why, did not want to know it.
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Holmes did not want to know too much about the people in his cases.
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I did not want to know what was going on in the world.
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I did not want to know .
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She never asked because she did not want to know if they all had to be burned.
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The employers, although they are expected to contribute, do not want to know .
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Whatever it was, Lisa did not want to know .
the last thing sb wants/expects/needs etc
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I like going to bed with her when going to bed with me is the last thing she wants.
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To be slipshod is to be hounded, which is the last thing he wants.
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With household costs inevitably rising, the last thing he wants is a larger mortgage than he can reasonably afford.
want no part of sth
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But manatee revelers wanted no part of the little pine trees.
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He wanted no part of foreign soils.
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My Sam - he wanted no part of it.
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Otherwise, it wants no part of North Forest's manifold problems.
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They wanted no part of team systems.
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They wanted no part of the Clinton plan.
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You must accept that she wants no part of you.
want rid of sb/sth
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Fred and Louise want it that way too, they want rid of me.
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Is Wilko trying to prove a point or does he just want rid of Rocky???
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They wanted rid of me all the time.
waste not, want not
whatever you say/think/want
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And she always did whatever she wanted, which was mostly enjoy herself and ignore her homework.
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Dare they call her bluff and just let her get on with whatever she thought she could do to inconvenience them?
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Eurydice said her daughter could do whatever she wanted to do.
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I eat whatever I want and run three miles a day.
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I know that I had no intention of stopping the procedure, whatever anyone said or did to influence me.
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In my stupidity-or whatever you want to call it-I tried to move around to his left.
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The hon. Gentleman can make whatever he wants of it, but it will still not save his seat.
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You think you should get whatever you want right away.
without wanting/wishing to do sth
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Without wanting to, Rose was drawn to watch.
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Without wishing to be demeaning, computer literacy and competence is not particularly high on the list of archival training.
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Without wishing to scare you unduly, you should be aware that sharks do lurk out there.
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Without wishing to tempt providence in any way, we appear to have got away lighting in so far as Winter is concerned.
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He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others.
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Lying in bed, she thought of him without wanting to hurt him at all.
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She sank deep down again, unable to stay alert, and saw without wanting to a giant Catherine-wheel in the sky.
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The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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People need to have freedom from want .
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The expansion of the bus system satisfies a want in the community.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If taken without pay... the owners will be left in want and to suffer.
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Yet it was hardly for want of trying.