Example sentences of "he want [verb] i [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wants to take me out to dinner tonight , ’ Alexandra could not resist adding . |
| 2 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 3 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 4 | He wanted to take me out in his boat to see to his lobster pots , only I was too scared of the sea . |
| 5 | He wanted to tell me off about not going to see my father before he died . |