Example sentences of "want [to-vb] [pers pn] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 2 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 3 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 4 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 5 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |