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Example sentences of "you want [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Ye want tae double-up ? ’ he asked .
2	Daddy d on my piano do you want to practice happy birthday ?
3	Yeah so do you want to sort of make a decision now , or wait till next week or
4	‘ What do you want for breakfast ? ’
5	What did you want for breakfast ?
6	What do you want for breakfast ?
7	Er , what do you want for breakfast ?
8	‘ What do you want for lunch ? ’ enquired Lydia when Emyr , having demonstrated that the taps now functioned , had left .
9	But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington .
10	But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington .
11	I said to Sally what do you want for Christmas , do you want some chocolates she nearly hit me .
12	What do you want for Christmas ?
13	I bet you do ah what do you want for tea ?
14	Erm , I do n't think we 've got any at the moment cos mum 's just gone to the shops What do you want for tea Lisa ?
15	What do you want with money
16	‘ For instance , what do you want in life ? ’
17	‘ What do you want in TOP ? ’
18	What else do you want in love ?
19	Yeah do , do you want in chocolate and vanilla ?
20	You will need to be able to complete a dressage test calmly and obediently if you want to event .
21	His message is : If you want to understanding knowing , remembering , hoping , and so on , do not look at whatever experiences may go with the use of the words ‘ know ’ , ‘ remember ’ , ‘ hope ’ , do not look at the phenomena ; look , instead , at the transactions of language , look at the grammar of the expressions ‘ I know ’ , ‘ I remember ’ , ‘ I hope ’ , look at what is done with these expressions .
22	Bombs can be used to blow-up awkward lines which you want to clear-out .
23	’ You want to go-sub-light and shoot it out ? ’
24	Well now erm what it says here is that you want to sort of talk about possible options for a year out and then relevance of archaeology to career in surveying or land management .
25	You want to sort of look at the whole picture together .
26	okay good point and that is that is a point , that you need to be clear about what you want to role plays on as good as the real thing you know but then again sometimes you know sometimes I 've listened to people saying well role plays are a bit harder than real life harder than real life why are we talking about being assertive now .
27	You know if you want to darling you
28	my chips if you want to darling .
29	Cook anything you want for supper ’
30	Says no that 's your money , you buy whatever you want for baby , I 'll buy she bought her one for eight quid and I says let's have a look at your one , yours are only eight quid I says , well how much were yours ?