Example sentences of "want [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me just to leave it ? |
| 2 | Do you want me just to catch you something first Alex ? |
| 3 | Or do we want them really to understand what they 're doing first presumably . |
| 4 | She does n't much want them actually to touch her . |
| 5 | And you want everyone else to get up as well do n't you ? |
| 6 | Alistair said , ‘ And then you want me quickly to buy as many publicly held shares as possible . ’ |
| 7 | If you 're saying you 're buying the butter solely for me , then I just want me solely to eat it . |
| 8 | Everyone wants everyone else to succeed . |
| 9 | ‘ The thing about the Sienese , ’ Haverford said , voicing a thought he intended to use in one of his ‘ Jottings ’ , ‘ is that they always want somebody else to do their dirty work for them . |
| 10 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 11 | I want you just to close your eyes for one minute everybody please . |
| 12 | That 's when I want you here to keep a watch on him . ’ |
| 13 | We want you there to check out what the hell has happened . |
| 14 | so we really want him not to play , case , of being not familiar with |
| 15 | Now the new regime want him back to stand trial , but to get extradition they have to establish a prima facie case under British law and their system is so different from ours that their evidence wo n't stand up over here . |
| 16 | But we want everybody else to come down . |
| 17 | Want anything else to eat . |
| 18 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
| 19 | Richard Dyer has described how Coward 's songwriting , along with that of other gay lyricists like Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart , can be productively reread in terms of their specifically homosexual perception of the double-edged nature of romantic love — simultaneously wanting it desperately to happen but convinced of the impossible ridiculousness of any such desire . |
| 20 | No , I do n't think Mr would want you just to have sausages . |
| 21 | But he , he said to the insurance people no I do n't want you just to keep on paying the bills . |
| 22 | Do you want something else to eat ? |
| 23 | I do n't want anybody here to go crazy . ’ |
| 24 | They are nobody else 's and no-one else will see them , if you do n't want anybody else to see them . |
| 25 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 26 | Well I would probably want her not to have too much less than what she 's got at the moment because |
| 27 | The truth was she had n't wanted to be a housewife at all : she had wanted someone else to do the washing and the shopping and the cooking and to mind the child while she breakfasted with clients . |
| 28 | Because you do n't want anyone else to intercept the letter and steam it open , you put Sellotape over the envelope flap . |
| 29 | ‘ It seemed as though they did n't want anyone else to intrude . ’ |
| 30 | She says I would n't want anyone else to go through this . |