Example sentences of "want [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 2 | The buggers want to see me go under . |
| 3 | Well I might as well , I mean if you want to let me order it now just get this out the way and then you can have more |
| 4 | She wants to make me colour co-ordinated . |
| 5 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 6 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 7 | Half my clients do n't even want to let me know what they 're up to . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you want to let me catch it for you ? in he continued patronisingly . |
| 9 | I 'd even had a call from the Archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Runcie , who had been kind enough to phone to say that he had been greatly moved by the vigil and had wanted to let me know that the situation was n't hopeless . |
| 10 | Wanted to make me feel jealous , thought Juliet . |
| 11 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 12 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 13 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 14 | They decided they wanted to make me look unusual , to make me look ‘ spacey ’ , and so they cut it all off . ’ |