Example sentences of "[pers pn] want this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 2 | So they should , and when the list of necessities is securely written down , you can ask the second question : How do I want this garden to feel ? |
| 3 | ‘ I want this country to be so proud of me that the Queen will give me one of her crowns . |
| 4 | ‘ they 're going to give it to me for being such a nice chap and because I want this guitar so badly . ’ |
| 5 | I want this building for a garage . |
| 6 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 7 | I want this laugh on tape . |
| 8 | This morning , too , she had said to her father , ‘ I want this afternoon off ; I want to do some shopping . ’ |
| 9 | I think to have a specific goal in mind like ‘ OK , I want this song to make someone feel sad ’ is useless . |
| 10 | I want this work this week to be as good if not better than the work you did for me last week . |
| 11 | I want this Parliament to continue to be the forum of our nation and I believe that the vast majority of our people share my wish . |
| 12 | Mm the water in my other pond is crystal clear , see straight down to the bottom , and another thing I want this hedge quite high cos keep the sun off my pond , if you let the sun on the pond it 'll just go green |
| 13 | What a voter is saying when he gives his first-preference vote to a particular candidate of a particular party is , " I want this candidate , of this party , to be elected " . |
| 14 | I want this voyage to last forever . |
| 15 | I want this whole this place tidied by the time I get back please ? |
| 16 | I have a goal for LASMO — I want this company to continue to grow and to be more profitable . |
| 17 | ‘ I want this chamber guarded closely ! ’ the regent ordered . |
| 18 | ‘ I want this man in a very special kind of photograph , ’ he muttered . |
| 19 | I want this thing settled . |
| 20 | I want this bridge to be in every way a dress rehearsal for that . |
| 21 | ‘ I want this room cleaned , and I want a warm bath got ready for Mrs Duncan . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I want this prison running perfectly for these visitors , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Then I want this lot livened up . ’ |
| 24 | In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status . |
| 25 | I want this light on |
| 26 | If I said , I want this job done in two hours . |
| 27 | Ah this is no good , I want this job done erm in four hours . |
| 28 | I want this morning to consider the effect of some of those issues on our planet and particularly on our atmosphere , and I begin by considering the ozone layer . |
| 29 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 30 | So , when he 'd first laid eyes on Judith — she 'd been sitting behind a desk at his accountant 's offices , her beauty all the more luminous for its drab setting — his first thought was : I want this woman ; his second : she wo n't want me . |