Example sentences of "[noun sg] want [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said your mum wants play with it sweetheart |
| 2 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 3 | With these skills already in place , a Help Wanted advertisement for the Governor 's job might read : ‘ Regional experience/administrative brilliance a plus — but not vital . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm in hot water over various things — nothing important enough to bore you with , but I know the director wants shot of me — he 's said as much and I 'm sure my days are numbered ; I feel like I 'm struggling to keep my head above water — Oh , I knew this particular pool was going to be deep , but he 's there waiting just above the surface to shove me under , finding some half-baked reason to be rid of me . |
| 5 | There was murder within marriage because a husband or a wife wanted life to be different and for one reason or another could find no other way to bring that about . |
| 6 | I seemed to have spent most of my life in hotel rooms where room service wanted money in advance and the roller towels were fixed with a padlock . |
| 7 | But her father wants treatment for annorexia sufferers to be improved . |
| 8 | The Commission wants permission from the member states to widen the terms of its mandate to negotiate a partnership agreement with Russia and other former Soviet republics . |
| 9 | A bank loan should not be undertaken lightly , especially if your bank manager wants security for the loan . |
| 10 | And the German Ambassador wants peace on earth and good will to all men , |
| 11 | The Montenegro government wants peace in Bosnia and Croatia . |
| 12 | And legal aid for libel : Former Royal Maid wants help for the poor . |
| 13 | The bank wanted security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home . |
| 14 | Voting in this space could be a peaceful protest at the performance of all the parties in House , and a warning that the public want change of policy all round . |
| 15 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 16 | The company wants access to the cash for working capital and capital expenditure . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Ruth said , ‘ it 's her Fand wants Undry for . ’ |
| 18 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 19 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 20 | If a single mother wants money from the father to help with the child 's upbringing , she may need to apply for maintenance payments and/or a lump sum from the father . |
| 21 | If the landlord of an Assured Shorthold Tenant wants possession of the premises he only has to prove to the Court the following three things : |
| 22 | " The Communist Party wants unity in the interests of the Labour movement as a whole " , wrote Harry Pollitt . |
| 23 | French want piece of Wembley |