Example sentences of "[noun] he want [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no wonder he wanted you to set off early . |
| 2 | No wonder he wanted you to set off early , he did n't know where he was going . |
| 3 | Ask the Father which passage(s) he wants you to read in the Bible . |
| 4 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 5 | Sarella turned in time to catch Marc 's worried glance following the reckless path of the jeep , but then he turned , and she could almost believe she 'd imagined that fleeting expression when he gave her a cynical smile and said , ‘ If it 's proverbs he wants I could have swopped him a more appropriate one . ’ |
| 6 | Now , seeing Mary 's shapelessness goblin-like straddling her thick hips he wanted her and his child out of there , as though they were vulnerable to these most bizarre manifestations of the random and the destructive . |
| 7 | Last year , you know , totally rat-arsed. now , he 's putting up a list of all the poems he wants us to look at for next week . |
| 8 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't have much choice , did I. He wanted me to have babies . |
| 10 | she wants about my maths he wants he 's so |
| 11 | She had the odd feeling , at times , that she was being moulded like a lump of clay into the person he wanted her to be . |
| 12 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 13 | ‘ That is , of course , ’ he said , sitting up again suddenly , ‘ unless Father has come up with an entirely new factor he wants me to think about . ’ |
| 14 | There were three people he wanted her to talk to : Martin Ayling , Stuart Pascoe and Cecil Hunter-Blair . |
| 15 | I offered a taxi into town but he preferred to walk to the exhibition he wanted me to see in Na Příkopě , near the centre . |
| 16 | ‘ If Mashaallah gets the mud he wants he could well run in the Arc . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 18 | and the door , the glass door he wanted it erm like the lead glass , oh similar to these |
| 19 | In emphasising the last word he wanted her to realise that he was as cynical about the ultimate behaviour of any Government Department , of any shade of political persuasion , as she was . |
| 20 | The speaker … chooses some message he wants to convey to his listeners : some thought he wants them to receive … |
| 21 | The kind of love he wanted she could never give , and had never made any pretence of . |
| 22 | But that 's what that 's one of reasons he wanted you to go up cos he 's got this letter . |
| 23 | Keep it out in case he wants it . |
| 24 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 25 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 26 | Of course he wants it . |
| 27 | When he got the staff nurse of the ward he wanted she said : |
| 28 | At that time , University College had no fellow in mathematics , which was another reason he wanted me to do chemistry : I could try for a scholarship in natural science rather than in mathematics . |
| 29 | I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’ |
| 30 | The last thing he wanted them to think was that , at fifteen , he was immature . |