Example sentences of "[conj] she want [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Mr Smith yesterday that she wanted to stay as Shadow Welsh Secretary . |
| 2 | Now this old girl is getting on and she wants to move into town . |
| 3 | I do n't think she 's all that keen on them , and sometimes she kicks them all out , if it 's getting late and she wants to go to bed . |
| 4 | I 've got a friend who recently dyed her hair purple because everyone knows you are n't going to get a decent — not to mention interesting — job with a ‘ punky ’ hairstyle , pierced nose and scruffy clothes , and she wants to stay in college . |
| 5 | B-R has told Margaret Wilkinson that if she wants to go by rail she 'll have to get a narrower wheelchair . |
| 6 | She said she 'd realised how tired your parents were becoming and she knew that if she wanted to remain at home on a long-term basis she would have to have some form of respite care . |
| 7 | His idea , she realised , was that if he saw to it that she had enough work to keep her occupied both at work and at home , there would be little time left over , if she wanted to keep on top of her job , for any social life with Travis . |
| 8 | She kept a straight face , but she wanted to jump with joy . |
| 9 | A SUICIDAL father asked his nine-year-old daughter to choose whether she wanted to live with mummy or die with him . |
| 10 | When she wants to go to bed with me . |
| 11 | Brewing Nescafé on her own gas-ring and buying solitary quarter pounds of cheese for herself ; and painting one wall geranium red and another cornflower blue and the others white , as she wanted to do at home but her mother would not let her . |