Example sentences of "want it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
| 2 | Yes , fine , now you want it in the red one and not the silver one , yes ? |
| 3 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 4 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 5 | ‘ The trouble is it is unimaginable to him that his women do n't want it in the same way . ’ |
| 6 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 7 | Her husband might want justice , but he wanted it through the proper channels . |
| 8 | The blue eyes regarded the world with the slightly cynical assurance of a man accustomed to getting what he wanted when he wanted it by the simplest of expedients , that of paying for it . |