Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] want [pers pn] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you can go on wanting you 've just had a biscuit piglet . |
| 2 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 3 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 4 | Although she had half hoped he might guess , she did not want him to guess now , she thought frantically . |
| 5 | I do not want him to return now . |
| 6 | I ca n't say that we 'll approve every one , but obviously we know that if you introduce a general charge there will be people for whom you do not want it to affect unfairly . |
| 7 | I do not want you to call here . |
| 8 | they did n't want me to go naturally . |
| 9 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 10 | ‘ Mummy did n't want me to come here , ’ she told Anne in what Anne thought of as a ‘ far back ’ voice , ‘ but I did n't want to arse around playing Lady Bountiful I wanted to do real war work . |
| 11 | One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything . |
| 12 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 13 | Nigel was fond enough of him in his way , but he did n't want him coming home too soon . |
| 14 | No publisher thinks of looking at something like that normally , but I did n't want it to seem too daunting . |
| 15 | I did n't want it to end ever . ’ |
| 16 | Besides , the Prince did n't want us to go too far . |
| 17 | ‘ They did n't want us to work together , ’ William 's grandad said . |
| 18 | You ca n't stop that , I mean that 's what I 've said to the Press , you do n't want him to go abroad because I think everybody 's going to miss that , because there are are n't too many that can do things like he does . |
| 19 | I do n't want him to telephone here . |
| 20 | I do n't want him to say well she did n't come round , she did n't ask me for the money , I mean I have n't ask him for the money and , he 'd like to on a Friday , when one come up , when the next one comes you can you ? |
| 21 | You do n't want me to sleep here ? ’ |
| 22 | Cos he do n't want me going there cos I fell arse over tip earlier ! |
| 23 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want them coming home later , to tell what happened . |
| 25 | ‘ I told you , I do n't want her hurt again . ’ |
| 26 | And you certainly do n't want her to come here again . ’ |
| 27 | I just do n't want it to take too long . |
| 28 | I do n't want it to happen again . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't want it to happen again . |
| 30 | Well you can have that and do n't , do n't want it chucked away . |