Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [prep] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said she could come with him if she did n't want to go on her own and she did n't know how to say no . |
| 2 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 3 | Ex-SACW Muriel Clague ( mo ) , RAF Wilmslow , 1959/60 , wants to hear from her old friends in the PBX |
| 4 | Bubbly schoolgirl Claire says she 's had enough of the Cinderella lifestyle forced on her by her natural mother and wants to live with her former foster parents . |
| 5 | No , the police 'll want to talk to her first , wo n't they ? |
| 6 | She did n't want to talk about her other life . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd like to take it , ’ she made up her mind on the spot , not wanting to return to her larger flat and start to have doubts . |
| 8 | There were all sorts of disadvantages to that , but she did want to look at her own presentation and movement in the classroom . |
| 9 | ‘ She told me she wanted to work on her own . |
| 10 | ‘ It was obviously something she wanted to handle on her own , ’ Melissa said gently . |
| 11 | She wanted to say in her other voice , the one she had mislaid outside , So here you are at last , on my estate , in my house , at my place in front of the fire . |
| 12 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |