Example sentences of "want [indef pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't want everyone knowing about it ! |
| 2 | Do you want someone to look at you ? ’ |
| 3 | Others may want someone to work with them and there is a wide range of therapies available . |
| 4 | Yeah I want everyone to do like five or ten minutes next week on what they 're gon na write . |
| 5 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 6 | Let us pause for a moment over ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ . |
| 7 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
| 8 | Oh , David 's father , he 's such an old stick nowadays , he wants everyone to jump to attention when he comes in the room . |
| 9 | This last point is a touchy issue with Sun , which wants nothing to do with USL 's Moolit toolkit . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , even in Minnie , who 's so unlikely that she 's probably true — there probably has been someone who grew up as she did , saloon-wise and card-sharping yet quite sure that she wants nothing to do with the kind of messing around she 's seen under her parents ’ roof . |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend at all surprised that the local health authority wants nothing to do with that document because it is pure Labour party propaganda and a cynical manipulation of the elderly and the frail ? |
| 12 | He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it . |
| 13 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 14 | The attitude of the companies is such that I want nothing to do with them ; I like to think we will survive without ruining the lives of the animals and destroying the land . ’ |
| 15 | It is a shame , however , that they want nothing to do with the RUC . |
| 16 | ‘ I find it interesting that there 's this whole small town that claims me , that I want nothing to do with . |
| 17 | Ms Maeve Sherlock , president of the National Union of Students , said : ‘ The Government must now take on running a scheme which the best financial experts in the country want nothing to do with . ’ |
| 18 | The six refusenik republics — the Baltic three , Moldavia , Georgia and Armenia — want nothing to do with it . |
| 19 | Give me what the others want nothing to do with . |
| 20 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 21 | If , like Glen Danzig , you 're calling for the death of religion , then you 're evil and I want nothing to do with you . |
| 22 | ROS : Oh , I 've heard of him all right and I want nothing to do with it . |
| 23 | I want nothing to do with you , or the Corosini — nothing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I want nothing to do with it . |
| 25 | ‘ I want nothing to do with it . |
| 26 | I want nothing to do with you . |
| 27 | TOP KARATE FIGHTERS GIVE BOSSES THE CHOP Although we are still members of the board , we want nothing to do with it … |
| 28 | ‘ I want nothing to do with people who are trying to destroy the image , wealth and morality of Italy . ’ |
| 29 | Cos I want nothing to do with her . |
| 30 | Oh gee , tomorrow right , mum has gone to me the other day oh , there 's this woman at bridge she wants someone to baby-sit for her on Wednesday nights . |