Example sentences of "want [pron] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want them to obtain a good position and be independent , preferably in the city . |
| 2 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 3 | ‘ I want you to join a scientific team . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , but the thing is , what it 's , what it 's doing is that , they want you to have a normal conversation on . |
| 6 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 7 | ‘ And we want her to get a nice lot of money for it so that she can afford to go and visit her nephew up North , ’ added Mary . |
| 8 | ‘ Because they want everybody to have a Big Daddy with his leather belt keeping 'em in order — less for them to do , ’ he said . |
| 9 | " The Foreign and Commonwealth Office want us to take a Danish biologist for two or three days next month . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , I want us to have a little talk now . |