Example sentences of "want [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marie 's so pretty and lovely , I want everyone to see us , so they 'll say how grown up and lucky I am to have such a lovely girlfriend . |
| 2 | It 's because your civilisation is in decline , and you want everyone to go down . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to live art and I want everyone to live art ’ — Rosa Maria Letts |
| 4 | I want to live art , and I want everyone to live art . |
| 5 | Yeah I want everyone to do like five or ten minutes next week on what they 're gon na write . |
| 6 | His objective is clear : ‘ We want everyone to return home safely to their families at the end of their day 's work , ’ he said . |
| 7 | After a moment 's hesitation she blurted , ‘ The couples I 've seen seem to parade , as though they want everyone to notice them . ’ |
| 8 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 9 | Let us pause for a moment over ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ . |
| 10 | Ah , I do n't need you to come out , put the things I 'm going to have in the centre of the table Right , let's have you quiet again then , shh shh , I want you to listen shh , I want you to listen Big boys will you read that first one , big boys , loudly , I want everyone to hear it . |
| 11 | Maybe there 's a radar station over in the woods , or maybe they want everyone to think there is . ’ |
| 12 | I want everyone to have a board like yours . ’ |
| 13 | The Cosmos Consumer Protection Plan cover virtually every aspect of your holiday , from the moment you pick up our brochure to the moment you arrive back home , and because we want everyone to know where they stand with us it clearly spells out our obligations to you and your commitments to us when you book a holiday with us from this brochure . |
| 14 | No I just did it for a laugh cos I want , I want everyone to know the most interesting language in the world which is part of my language is n't it ? |
| 15 | We want everyone to work together . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We want them to spend time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We want them to spend time . |
| 18 | The logic behind this rule is that if si and sj are switched on together more frequently in the desired state than while the machine is free , then we want them to correlate more ; so we increase the weight of the link between them . |
| 19 | So I hope you 'll understand that if I do n't include my subscription with this letter it 's not because I do n't support you and if I shop in Smiths it 's not because I want them to sell pornography . |
| 20 | We want them to emerge solely as a result of cumulative selection of random mutations . |
| 21 | Trusting relationships between children are a crucial determining factor if we want them to collaborate spontaneously . |
| 22 | I want you to marry ; I want you to have sons ; I want them to inherit Carewscourt . |
| 23 | I want them to leave here , knowing that this prison is well run and that its inmates are being adequately dealt with . |
| 24 | You move between screens by clicking with the right mouse button on the portion you want to view , and drag the application windows you see here to the portion of the virtual desktop you want them to reside in . |
| 25 | It is n't an appropriate behaviour if you want them to shut up . |
| 26 | You want them to respond , rather like the vicar who ‘ wired-up ’ his pews . |
| 27 | Now what I want to do is I want them to respond first . |
| 28 | you know and I said that so I put that on , he said and what you actually want them to collect |
| 29 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 30 | For once his eyes point where I want them to point . |