Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 2 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 3 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 4 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 5 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 6 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 7 | If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro . |
| 8 | Want to nail him to the fence you should think he 's not |
| 9 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 10 | As a novice in the game , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And Joe and Biddy , I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you 've done for me . |
| 12 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
| 13 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 14 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 15 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 16 | He 's missing but I want to find him without the law knowing I 'm interested . ’ |
| 17 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 18 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 19 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 20 | the best thing you want to stick it in the room and put a heater . |
| 21 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 22 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 23 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 24 | Erm on the understanding that for any Green Party members that want to use it over the conference . |
| 25 | ‘ And I want to use it in the plot for my new novel , ’ Melissa continued . |
| 26 | And now they 've changed their mind and want to put me in a caravan . |
| 27 | You want to put it in the fridge ? |
| 28 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 29 | Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one . |
| 30 | Do you like it straight out the fridge , well , I left it in the fridge , first of all , said oh get the , get the cheeses out , and I said , no I want to leave them in the fridge , I want those nice and cool . |