Example sentences of "[adv] want [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did so want him to kiss her . |
| 2 | Perhaps because he did not want somebody to see him . |
| 3 | She did not want him to hold her again . |
| 4 | I did not want him to see me . |
| 5 | So I came out immediately , as I did not want him to pull me out . |
| 6 | She had stolen many a glance at him since yesterday to see if perhaps there was anything that might show , but it was difficult , she did not want him to feel he was under examination , and anyway today the tired look was gone . |
| 7 | Lina 's family will not want her to see me , but I am quite convinced she herself would welcome my presence . |
| 8 | He did not want her to think he was gloating . |
| 9 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 10 | We do not want them to know we are coming . ’ |
| 11 | But he did not want them to follow him under any false delusion . |
| 12 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 13 | I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose . |
| 14 | I would not want anyone to think we had provided the final word . |
| 15 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 16 | He did not want anybody to see him . |
| 17 | I am being a trifle cunning in this , as I do not want you to forget me . |
| 18 | But I do not want you to marry me just because your parents wanted it . |
| 19 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 20 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you really want me to sell it ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | She did n't really want him to touch her … |
| 23 | yeah , that 'll be nice , cos we do n't really want it do we ? |
| 24 | as if they did n't even want anyone to know they 'd been inside . ’ |
| 25 | So obviously if Mike 's been chosen once or he 's done it he does n't want somebody asking him again . |
| 26 | No I do n't want one thank you . |
| 27 | I do n't want one thank you . |
| 28 | Ah , but I did n't want one did I ? |
| 29 | well just leave it there because it wo n't matter , but daddy does n't want me to see you see before it comes out , it makes it more exciting that way , want to come and sit on my knee ? |
| 30 | ‘ If you did n't want me to hit you , you should have kept your mouth shut . ’ |