Example sentences of "he want [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Since when do you ask Brian if he wants to go for a walk ?
2	with old age , he wants to go for a walk you 've been walkies today ?
3	He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor .
4	That is , the retailer can decide how much profit he wants to make on an item ( see page 145 ) .
5	I was going to ask Mike if he wants to come as an observer because he 's never been to conference and erm
6	he wants to get into a fight with er he said he 's gon na hit , hit Feargal
7	I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl .
8	Years ago a man walked in to the paper and said he wanted to confess to a murder — and to prove it , he had sawn-off sections of the body with him in a carrier bag . ’
9	He wanted to stop for a smoke ,
10	Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school .
11	‘ In the beginning , Freddie did n't have all the powers that he wanted to have as a vocalist ; he worked to achieve those and improved as he worked over the years .
12	He knew he had to come to a decision before he went back down , he wanted to come to a decision before he went back down .
13	Before that , Hubert had announced that he wanted to qualify as a doctor .
14	The local dialect was strong ; Garvey had difficulty in making a passer-by understand that he wanted to speak to a parish councillor or the Bishop .
15	He wanted to forget for a while — to escape from the prison of his real life , and to lose himself in dreams .
16	He wanted to howl like a dog and hear the echoes all around him .

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