Example sentences of "i want [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
2 | ‘ I think that he is an actor of international standing and if the production is taken up I want him to stay with it . |
3 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
4 | It 's a way of saying to yourself , if he really loves me , he 'll stop doing that because I want him to ’ , Roz says . |
5 | I want him in this evening . |
6 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
7 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
8 | Mrs Heseltine has said that she and her husband talk things over endlessly : ‘ I want him to succeed , but I do n't want it for myself . |
9 | He normally works for me at St Andrews and I want him to do it because he 'll be retiring after this year . |
10 | He 's in a pot bunker and it 's going to be difficult to get out , but I want him to get out beyond Jacklin 's drive so he 's second to play . |
11 | I want him to shoot for every flag . |
12 | ‘ I want him to get it tomorrow without fail . ’ |
13 | I want him cured . |
14 | ‘ I want him to live forever but I know I 'm making the right decision even if he dies . |
15 | I want him here until the end of his career . ’ |
16 | I want him bad … ’ |
17 | ‘ And I want him to win because he 's unbeaten and I want to be the first man to take the H out of Holyfield . ’ |
18 | ‘ Now I want him to have more shots on goal and get on the end of more chances . ’ |
19 | I want him to know he has my son 's blood on his hands . |
20 | ‘ I want him dead , all the families do . ’ |
21 | ‘ That 's the way I want him because we have a quiet bunch of lads who need bossing about . ’ |
22 | I want him to want me and he does n't . |
23 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
24 | ‘ Do n't worry , if I want him to shut up I 'll give him a dig and he 'll soon get the message ! |
25 | And it may also demand analysis of the constructions that a word may appear in , for instance , that a verb like want can be followed by the term for what is wanted , as in I want that block ; or by a clause , as in I want him to come here . |
26 | I want him to know how futile it is for him to try and escape my influence … " |
27 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
28 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
29 | I do n't know if I want him to find him — it — or not . |
30 | I want him waiting by this corner . |