Example sentences of "what [pers pn] want for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 2 | Now , she thought , now Edouard will have what I know he wants so desperately , what I want for him . |
| 3 | Already the ‘ What I want for Christmas ’ letters are pouring into Mr Brooke , although the goodies ( we do n't know for certain what they will amount to — that would spoil the surprise — but if we are lucky they may amount to £36 million per sector ) will not be dispensed for two years at least . |
| 4 | Indeed as you watch drama on television you often think " That 's just what I want for tomorrow 's lesson . " |
| 5 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 6 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 7 | That 's what I want for Neil . |
| 8 | Yeah well what I want for Jonathan 's bedroom , you can buy them . |
| 9 | That 's what I want for Aaron for his room |
| 10 | Guess what I want for next year ? |
| 11 | What she want for Christmas , did she say ? |
| 12 | If that 's what you want for the museum . |
| 13 | No matter what you want for your home , from a high technology water system to a scrolled Edwardian radiator made from original castings , it should be there . |
| 14 | A popular shift for returning district nurses is the twilight shift — assisting patients into or out of bed — although this may not be what you want for the rest of your life . |
| 15 | is that er you can go in and you can sit and you can talk to them about what you want for a holiday |
| 16 | ‘ I really think if you make it too busy it becomes like Disneyland , and I 'm sure that 's not what you want for Crystal Springs . ’ |
| 17 | Within a long programme you may find a short sequence which contains exactly what you want for a particular lesson . |
| 18 | ‘ It appears that you are willing to sacrifice what you want for the good of others , ’ he said softly . |
| 19 | Is is that what you want for children ? |
| 20 | We will go to the Campo de ’ Fiori , and you will tell me what you want for our lunch . ’ |
| 21 | Why do n't you sit down and tell me what you want for Christmas . |
| 22 | Coming out with your list of what you want for your birthdays . |
| 23 | What you want for tea ? |
| 24 | What you want for the |
| 25 | Is this wha what you want for the future ? |
| 26 | What we 've got ta decide is what we want for the , the C E D G I thing . |
| 27 | I think we need to say , okay , in the future , what are we , the town , gon na do , to make this building right for what we want for the town . |
| 28 | So what we do is erm your your cursor must be in the table somewhere , so you then go up to table , select table , then you 've got to format , border , and grid so we want the grid lines to show then in fact you can chose what we want for the outside border one of these Right , okay Now what I want you to do is set the questions , right ? |
| 29 | The £3.5 million offer tabled by Rovers tops , by £200,000 , the record fee they paid Southampton for England striker Alan Shearer last summer , but Clark is adamant : ‘ It is still not enough and nobody has come remotely near what we want for Roy . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't know what we want for tonight but we might go down my sister 's this afternoon so we want something easy for when we come back . |