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Example sentences of "[adv] want [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you .
2	Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life .
3	Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm
4	Yet she only wanted to do it with Lord George .
5	I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could .
6	‘ I only wanted to thank you for organizing a unique experience for me . ’
7	One of the features of that day will be a series of mini- lecturers on just about every conceivable subject , and during the next few Ideas In Action programmes I shall be talking to some of the lecturers about their topics , hopefully whetting your appetites sufficiently to want to join us on that day to hear more .
8	One of the features of the day will be a series of mini-lectures on just about every conceivable subject , and during the next few Ideas in Action programmes , I shall be talking to some of the lecturers about their topics and , hopefully , whetting your appetites sufficiently to want to join us on June the fourteenth to hear more .
9	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 .
10	But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind .
11	He did not want to do it in front of the crowd .
12	Greeks with money do not want to put it into building factories .
13	I would not want to return you to your female progenitor in what , from my briefings on human culture , I perceive to be an indecorous condition . ’
14	We need land at our doorstep … if Russia does not want to give it to us , she will force us to undertake an expropriation proceeding , i.e. a war , for which we have long stored up the reasons …
15	I did not want to leave her without saying goodbye fairly .
16	Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary .
17	‘ I do not want to share you with anyone at all . ’
18	Surely she does not want to deprive them of these amenities ?
19	For them , the change in leadership and the promise of reform opened up opportunities denied to the Red Guard generation and they did not want to jeopardise them by becoming too involved in a politically orientated movement .
20	I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying .
21	‘ I do not want to know you at all , Monsieur Lemarchand , ’ she stated firmly .
22	It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks .
23	On the other hand , we may know the subject but not want to reveal it to our listener , e.g. :
24	I just want to return it to its owner . ’
25	I just want to ask you about the actual erm methodology , which sections did you examine ?
26	They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked .
27	All the time I 'm working and eating and chatting to my mates , I just want to feel you next to me , just want to hold you in my arms and forget about everything else .
28	And again in abbreviated form that , I just want to take you through the molecular basis for endotoxin action .
29	‘ I just want to bury them in the ground .
30	Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved .