Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] want for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 2 | I have to get down all the colours or elements I want for the poem . |
| 3 | Belinda was instantly aware of the fact that she was dressed only in the silk slip that Faye had decided best captured the mood she wanted for her painting . |
| 4 | ‘ First , you 're going to get the video equipment you want for Condor and take it out there . |
| 5 | Now it 's made the people , I have friends in Moscow , who are saying that they are losing a lot of their food supplies , because the West are taking the most throw down prices so that the Yugoslavs and the Romanians can get the goodies they want for us . |
| 6 | Anyway , erm we went to the Ca Polly had n't seen them in the shops anywhere and went to Caerphilly market on Saturday morning and as we were coming from it he said look there 's a shirt you want for Robert there . |
| 7 | So if we see Father Christmas Carla you know that head band you wanted for Christmas dancing . |
| 8 | The UN , trawling the net wide , has not yet found the troops it wants for Mozambique , which in contrast to Angola is supposed to be a model operation , or the mechanised battalion it has been told to send to the Kuwait-Iraq border . |
| 9 | Get down to Bob Cratchitt 's this minute and give Tiny Tim that away kit he wants for Chrimbo you tight get . |
| 10 | Mother love , iron discipline , cooked breakfasts — nothing promises the protection we want for our six-foot babies . |
| 11 | Two weeks later , the changes I wanted for the animals — shade , water , things like that — were done . |
| 12 | All the things you want for christmas Jonathan , I need a money tree . |
| 13 | So wh are you saying that all this stuff you want for the admin course , you 're gon na raise money separately or do you want |
| 14 | It 's strange you have an image in your mind of the particular person you want for the particular role . |
| 15 | That 's the sort of colour you want for the top of your is n't it ? |
| 16 | There , my darlings , is not Miss Abbott a finer sight by far than that tawdry tinsel fairy you wanted for our tree ? |
| 17 | We think of all the things we wanted for Danny — a job , a happy marriage , children . |
| 18 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 19 | Individuals and families differ considerably in what kind of education they want for their children and what kind of care for their dependants . |
| 20 | Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children . |
| 21 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 22 | Things they want for the Christmas party ? |
| 23 | Elizabeth had won the essay competition and was just about to stand up when Jessica got up and she walked up to Mr and she asked and he asked her what magazine she wanted for the year and she said Rock Seventeen Jessica knew what magazine Elizabeth wanted and she just said Rock Seventeen . |
| 24 | Chief executive Nick Temple said ‘ We are now at staff levels we want for 1994 and 1995 . ’ |
| 25 | Chief executive Nick Temple said ‘ We are now at staff levels we want for 1994 and 1995 . ’ |
| 26 | They told me that the people they want for education are the people who are sentenced for about six months , not the ones who are only there for one month . |
| 27 | The money they wanted for us to use it even just a weekend was absolutely ridiculous which to me seems in opposition to the whole idea of the borough . |
| 28 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 29 | TWO PEOPLE were charged last night with terror offences in London while police hunting the killers of a soldier in Derby named a man they wanted for questioning . |
| 30 | Shortly after , the Watch Committee decided unanimously that Henry Peck was no longer the man they wanted for Chief Constable . |