Example sentences of "[pron] want [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 2 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 3 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 4 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 5 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 6 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 7 | said you want to put 'em in a bag and shake 'em up . |
| 8 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 9 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 10 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 11 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 12 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 13 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 14 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 15 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 16 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 17 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |