Example sentences of "he want [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invariably , whenever I am out shopping with my little boy , conversation with people we meet turns to sweets , with questions like ‘ Are you going to buy some sweets today ? ’ or ‘ Does n't he want sugar in his drink ? ’ |
| 2 | He wants access to the sniper 's perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository , from which the fatal shots were fired . |
| 3 | ‘ No , Apparently he wants access to the lower road . ’ |
| 4 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 6 | He wants approval from the full parliament , as well as the environment committee , in time for it to be discussed at a meeting of environment ministers in June . |
| 7 | Honestly , he wanted life to be as hard as possible . |
| 8 | He wanted money for rain , money for the AOL , and now he 's dead . |
| 9 | He told the brokers he wanted cover for his wife 's death and nothing more . |
| 10 | He wanted order in the Church . |
| 11 | Gillet was influenced in the liberation years by the cafe conversation of Jean Fautrier , who had said that he wanted painting in which everything previously learnt would be discarded . |
| 12 | As a Catholic , he wanted revenge for the Catholic Basques ' " betrayal " of the Nationalist cause . |
| 13 | O'Brien had approached the Prince at the end of 1984 because he wanted support for a particular project , called Fullemploy . |
| 14 | He wanted control of guns . |
| 15 | In 1968 Nixon won the Presidential election , on his promise to end the war , but even he wanted victory for America and would not withdraw until this had been achieved . |
| 16 | At most , he wanted access to Gibraltar , but not at any price . |