Example sentences of "[adv] want [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 2 | I 've got to go and tell the teacher this morning Alex needs to stay till twenty past three cos they only want them to stay till half two . |
| 3 | No , I only want you to speak for yourself . |
| 4 | But he changed his mind and only wanted me to play against QPR when Lee Sharpe went down poorly . |
| 5 | ‘ They stated that they did not want him to exist in this fashion . ’ |
| 6 | This is not because it is so special or secret that I do not want to divulge it — indeed the patient will remember it quite well for himself — but because I do not want him to listen to that tape at some future date and begin to regress himself when I am not there to take charge of the situation . |
| 7 | Death would be too kind an end for a man who has done what he has , and I do not want him to escape into it . ’ |
| 8 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 9 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 10 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 11 | Could we qualify that that we do not want them to go down School Lane ? |
| 12 | We would also not want them to fall into the hands of children . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You may not want them to begin with , but you should n't fix it , do n't say ‘ I 'll never want children ’ , and do n't put him in that position either . |
| 14 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 15 | If the Labour party did not want us to vote for its councillors , what confidence can we have in the people that it puts up for election ? |
| 16 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 17 | Er , right , shh shh er right people , shh er you might find that once you start thinking about what you actually believe , it gets quite complicated I just want you to listen to this . |
| 18 | I just want you to think about it , and the readers of Aura too . |
| 19 | They do n't want a report of the years work they just want us to talk about one or two things we 've done Any more events ? |
| 20 | Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will , and once they were gone , she plunged into work . |
| 21 | She had not wanted him to respond with a show of good humour . |
| 22 | She had not wanted him to behave like ‘ darling Alexander ’ ! |
| 23 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 24 | ‘ You always wanted me to go to parties . |
| 25 | What I also want you to do on this is if you can refer to Adrian Bull 's book , the Economics of Travel and Tourism , and just go through the relevant chapter on demand . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you really want me to go into all the nasty , seedy little details ? |
| 27 | Benny did n't really want her to come to the party , but for once Mother had been insistent . |
| 28 | Surely they ca n't really want her to pay for that mistake for the rest of her life ! |
| 29 | But I do n't really want you to stray into detail which is not necessarily within our remit to er to consider . |
| 30 | But if you really want me to go into details Valerie Mitchell was sitting not far from you last week . |