Example sentences of "want [verb] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 2 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 3 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 4 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 5 | Naturally I would n't want to get him in any trouble . ’ |
| 6 | Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background . |
| 7 | Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock . |
| 8 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 9 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 10 | Now , more than anything , she wanted to point him towards that hole and push . |
| 11 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |
| 12 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 13 | Apart from anything else , she wanted to recompense him in some way , although she doubted he would accept a reward . |
| 14 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |