Example sentences of "he wants a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto .
2 He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine .
3 The bird he wants a biscuit .
4 That 's why he wants a goal urgently , and , besides , he has a point to prove — he wants to show United they were right !
5 Now he 's got that , he says he wants a wordprocessor .
6 PIECES OF EIGHT : Lewis lands his eighth Olympic gold medal — now he wants a showdown with Christie
7 T to shift the gear , cos he wants a couple
8 Perhaps he wants a drink now .
9 I bet he wants a bollocks P C.
10 Di , Di did n't have but the one but he come up , he said said he wants a spirit level and he wants a tape measure he 'd got the spirit level he said I ca n't find the tape measure he said , said it was on top of the bag .
11 Because it was agreed it should be a single storey dwelling and he 's going for he wants a chalet type bungalow .
12 He wants a girl friend and I want a boy friend , and as I like him ( or at least what I know of him ) and I think he likes me , I think it would be good for both of us if we could be friends .
13 He wants a word with you . ’
14 He says he wants a word with you , Sophie . ’
15 If he wants a wife he 'll find one soon enough .
16 My daughter ( seven ) wants to be a ballerina when she grows up and my son ( five ) says he wants a wife ‘ to do the cooking ’ .
17 and he wants a wife
18 Perhaps he wants a tip ?
19 He wants a machine with intelligence ; he must therefore have a man .
20 He says he wants a compromise acceptable to Britain and its partners — which means he does not want to stop other countries moving towards EMU .
21 You 're not well enough , you just sit in a chair there 's some cake in the tin if he wants a bit of cake !
22 in village , not far up us and er I were getting round me mum and pulling on her skirts and and this old woman says , get him fed Frances , he wants a bit of pap , get him , get him picked up and give him a bit of pap and that 'll shut him up
23 Cos he wants a pair of shoes .
24 What he prefers of course is a figural economy of desire ; he wants a sensibility , a culture and a politics in which the primary process ‘ erupts ’ into the secondary process like ‘ the application of a force to text ’ ( Dews 1984 , p. 47 ) .
25 He wants a world beater in his side so how about Nigel Mansell as a driving force in his next squad .
26 but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him
27 Di , Di did n't have but the one but he come up , he said said he wants a spirit level and he wants a tape measure he 'd got the spirit level he said I ca n't find the tape measure he said , said it was on top of the bag .
28 Aye but she has n't , she might of he wants a long-line
29 Birch has seen contemporaries Ken Doherty and James Wattana come of age this season and now he wants a slice of their action .
30 Ah , he wants a pear , another plate please
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