Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] that [pron] want " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 2 | Shortly after Vitalis finished his course , a teacher in one of the schools told me that he wanted to get married in Church . |
| 3 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 4 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 5 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 6 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 7 | D' ya still wan na go with her cos she told me that she wants to go with ya ? |
| 8 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 9 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 10 | He told him that he wanted to stay with him . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him that I wanted £5,000 from him . |
| 12 | I planned to travel with him , but I told him that I wanted to go walking in the mountains alone . |
| 13 | Hart has formally been nominated by the Auckland union , but he has informed Auckland and several other unions who support him that he wants more time to decide whether he really wants the toil and trouble of being the All Black coach . |
| 14 | Such a sensation of pure joy filled her that she wanted to shout it aloud , spread the news , let the whole of creation share this sublime happiness . |
| 15 | She had a row with a young man named Nick Owens when they were all at the caelidhe one evening and he told her that he wanted her to be his girl and not go out with anyone else . |
| 16 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |
| 17 | I says , yeah , I told her yo told her that you wanted to see her . |
| 18 | So erm anyway she told her that she wanted Jay out . |
| 19 | With children , the presupposition is that we take the responsibility until they show us that they want it ; with adults we assume that they take the responsibility unless they show us that they do n't . |
| 20 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 21 | If they if you have n't told them that we want a banker 's order signed all right ? |
| 22 | Banker 's order they 'll use if if you have n't told them that we want a banker 's order signed . |
| 23 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |
| 24 | The customer has told you that he wants £3000 for the car — the actual value at 57,000 miles is half that . |
| 25 | Obviously I want to avoid that , which is why I said that those people or their advisers or friends should get in touch with the building societies , which have told us that they want to avoid repossession wherever possible . |
| 26 | ‘ Our customers have told us that they want to spend more on foods , ’ said unit manager , Helen Blaydes . |
| 27 | Tell them that we want we wan na be paid for them , and erm all we want |
| 28 | Suppose I tell them that you want to escort me tonight for personal reasons ? ’ |
| 29 | Yeah tell them that you wanted them , and they were n't like the description |
| 30 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |