Example sentences of "want [to-vb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If you want to talk him the number 's o-five-hundred , four-o-four , treble zero . |
2 | Kharin 's £200,000 transfer from CSKA Moscow will be completed any day now but Hitchcock wants to give him the Beasant treatment . |
3 | ‘ We want to give him the chance to tell us how this strong criticism of him is not justified . |
4 | I want to tell him the story of my life . |
5 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
6 | She did n't want to give him the satisfaction . |
7 | She did n't want Georg back but she wanted to hurt him the way Gesner had hurt her . |
8 | She wanted to tell him the rest of it ; tell him what Mrs Gotobed had told her to tell Mr Evans and ask Albert what he thought she had meant , but she could n't think how to put it without making herself sound fearfully stupid . |
9 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |